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Staffan de Mistura, who heads the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

Threat to burn Koran could endanger those assisting Afghanistan, warns UN envoy

8 September 2010
The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today voiced his outrage over the threat by a religious group in the United States to burn copies of the Koran, warning that it could endanger the lives of those working to further peace and development in the Asian nation.
Posters of candidates line the streets in Afghanistan for the 20 August 2009 presidential election

UN mission supports decision on final list of polling centres for Afghan elections

7 September 2010
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has voiced its full support for the decision of the country’s independent election authorities to reaffirm the final list of polling centres for parliamentary elections later this month.
Child being vaccinated against Polio in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: UN moves quickly to immunize 1.5 million children from polio

2 September 2010
The United Nations is moving swiftly to vaccinate 1.5 million children after a polio case was detected in an area of north-eastern Afghanistan which had been free of the disease for more than a decade.