Afghanistan

Afghanistan, UN agency cooperate on drafting tougher anti-terrorism laws

15 June 2004
Declaring the fight against terrorism to be a priority for Afghanistan, the country’s leaders have the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to help it draft domestic laws against terrorism and international organized crime.
The one millionth registrant

Afghan voter registration passes 3.5 million mark, UN mission says

14 June 2004
More than 3.5 million Afghans have registered to vote, nearly 35 per cent of them women, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has reported.
Jean Arnault

UN officials condemn killing of 11 Chinese workers in Afghanistan

10 June 2004
United Nations officials joined members of the Security Council today in strongly condemning the killing of 11 construction workers from China and their local guard during an attack on their compound last night in Afghanistan.

No one hurt in attack on UN electoral convoy in southern Afghanistan

7 June 2004
A convoy of United Nations and Afghan electoral workers was attacked yesterday while travelling in southern Afghanistan, but no one in the group appears to have been hurt, a UN spokesman announced today.
Jean Arnault

UN envoy 'encouraged' by talks with Afghan leaders on disarmament, security

24 May 2004
With the United Nations-backed plan to decommission thousands of ex-soldiers in Afghanistan picking up steam, the top UN envoy in the country met today with the governor of Herat and two senior army commanders to discuss key aspects of the national agenda.

Afghanistan: UN reports new voter registration sites expected to increase quickly

13 May 2004
Only 340 of the 4,000 anticipated sites for the second stage of registration for Afghanistan’s general elections in September are now operating “but they are expanding geometrically,” the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today.
Mark Malloch Brown

UN-backed conference seeks to boost regional trade through Afghanistan

12 May 2004
For more than two decades, Afghanistan's war-torn borders were an obstacle to trade from South to Central Asia, but a United Nation-backed conference is now seeking to exploit the new opportunities in the region to boost economic cooperation, trade and transit.

Afghanistan: Blast hits car transporting electoral staff, but registration continues

9 May 2004
A vehicle transporting national electoral field coordinators in Afghanistan exploded in an unexplained blast on Saturday near Jalalabad, but the country's voter registration drive continues, a United Nations spokesman reported today.
Jean Arnault

Top UN envoy in Afghanistan strongly condemns ‘brutal slaying’ of aid workers

29 April 2004
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced shock at Monday’s “brutal slaying” of two local workers of a non-governmental organization (NGO) in southern Kandahar, strongly condemning it as “yet another tragic and unacceptable act” against the aid community.

Afghanistan: UN suspends operations in Kandahar region following bomb blast

26 April 2004
All United Nations operations in the Kandahar region of southern Afghanistan have been temporarily suspended, including voter registration, and movement within the city by national and international staff has been limited following a roadside bomb attack against a UN convoy.