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Sir David Veness (file photo)

UN security chief steps down over last year’s Algiers terrorist attack

24 June 2008
The head of United Nations security has resigned, saying he will shoulder full responsibility for any security lapse that may have occurred concerning the deadly terrorist attack against UN facilities in Algiers last December.
UNHCR Algiers headquarters destroyed by suicide bomb attack

Group to probe individual accountability for deadly attack on UN in Algiers

24 June 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he is setting up a group to examine whether any United Nations staff should be held individually accountable over last December’s deadly terrorist attack on the world body’s premises in Algiers.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General deplores deadly bombing at Baghdad market

17 June 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned today’s terrorist bombing at a market in northern Baghdad that has reportedly killed at least 50 people and left scores more injured.

New global ban on cluster bombs will save millions of young lives – UN agency

3 June 2008
Stressing the unspeakable suffering inflicted on millions of children by the use of cluster munitions, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lauded the recent adoption of a new global treaty banning the production, use and transfer of these deadly weapons.