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Tom Koenigs, SRSG for Afghanistan

UN envoy calls for action on Afghanistan Compact development plan

30 April 2006
As key national and international officials gathered in Kabul to usher forward a major development plan for Afghanistan, the senior United Nations envoy to the country urged determined action to see it through.
SRSG Tom Koenigs in Kabul

UN envoy to Afghanistan says positive trends must spread to south

27 April 2006
The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today reported economic growth in the war-ravaged nation, but emphasized that strengthened cooperation with Pakistan is key to stability in their volatile border region.
A victim of a landmine explosion

UN demining official warns of budget gap if no new donors come forward

24 April 2006
After benefiting from a surge in funding following the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001 and consequently clearing over half the minefields in Afghanistan, the United Nations Mine Action Programme for the country (MAPA) is currently projecting a funding shortfall in 2006, one of its officials said today.

Afghanistan: UNICEF’s bird flu public information campaign gains pace

24 April 2006
With the deadly avian influenza virus found in four provinces in Afghanistan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is moving forward with the nationwide public information campaign to raise awareness about measures to protect human health and contain any possible outbreak.

Saga of Afghan refugees in Pakistan nears closure under UN-backed accord

21 April 2006
A top United Nations refugee official today ended a six-day visit to Pakistan, during which a breakthrough agreement was signed with the government that will help close the chapter on the millions of Afghans who fled there from their homeland during two and a half decades of war and factional fighting.
School girls in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: UN rights experts condemns targeting of schools by terrorists

20 April 2006
A United Nation expert on the right to education today voiced outrage at the seemingly systematic targeting of schools in Afghanistan, especially girls’ schools, by terrorist groups apparently seeking to shut down the school system.
Tom Koenigs, SRSG for Afghanistan

After deadly Afghan school attack, UN envoy calls for end to such atrocities

11 April 2006
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today condemned the “heinous” attack on a school which killed six children and wounded 14 other people. He called for the end of such atrocities against the youngsters of the violence-torn country.

9,000 Afghans return from Pakistan in March in UN repatriation programme

31 March 2006
Nearly 9,000 Afghan refugees have gone home in the first month of the final year of the United Nations-assisted repatriation programme from Pakistan, citing jobs and shelter as key factors influencing their decision in an operation that is expected to cover some 400,000 by the end of 2006.

Afghan convert to Christianity requests asylum, UN mission says

27 March 2006
An Afghan charged with converting from Islam to Christianity in a court case that threatened to strain the war-torn country’s relations with the international community has asked for asylum in another country, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported today.

Security Council extends UN mission in Afghanistan for one more year

23 March 2006
The United Nations Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the four year-old United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which expires 24 March, for an additional 12 months in order to continue assisting the Afghan leadership during the next phase of rebuilding the country.