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Peter Galbraith, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan

UN calls for probe after air strike in northern Afghanistan kills dozens

4 September 2009
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is sending a team to the north of the country where an overnight air strike by NATO forces against stolen trucks has reportedly led to dozens of civilian deaths.
Refugees in their special tented camp in remote and desolate region

UN agency shelters hundreds of returning refugees in northern Afghan wastelands

3 September 2009
The United Nations refugee agency has started providing shelter to hundreds of Afghans who have recently returned from Iran to their homeland, more than two decades after they fled during the Soviet Union’s occupation of the country in the 1980s.

Afghanistan: UN official appalled by deadly attack on mosque

2 September 2009
A senior United Nations official spoke out against today’s suicide bomb attack at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, stressing that it is “indefensible” that such a blast occurred during the holy month of Ramadan.

Afghan opium market hit by falling cultivation, production, prices – UN report

2 September 2009
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has slumped for the second year, according to a United Nations report released today, which warns that huge, hidden stashes of the illicit drug are a “ticking bomb” in the country responsible for producing almost all of the world’s opium.
The Peace doves are part of a campaign launched by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) [File Photo]

Top UN official in Afghanistan calls for national participation in peace campaign

1 September 2009
The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has urged the entire nation to join an ambitious three-week-long peace campaign, which kicked off today when Afghan celebrities, UN staff and civil society representatives held hands at simultaneous events in cities throughout the country.