The United States did not pressure the United Nations to suppress an internal report produced following the bombing in Uruzgan earlier this month, a UN spokesman said today.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today reported that it had given United States and Afghan authorities copies of an internal UN report produced following the bombing in Uruzgan earlier this month.
The senior United Nations official in Afghanistan has requested more work on a preliminary report concerning a bombing incident earlier this month in Uruzgan, a UN spokesman said today in New York.
The United Nations top official in Afghanistan – the world’s most mine-infested country – today hailed the country’s decision to adopt an international treaty banning the deadly weapons.
Aiming to correct longstanding gender discrimination in Afghanistan, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) will provide the country's Ministry for Women's Affairs with some $1.4 million under a new capacity-building agreement signed today in New York.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today hailed the Japanese Government for donating $10.8 million to education programmes for displaced and refugee children returning to their homes in Afghanistan.
Just over three months after the start of a United Nations-backed programme to help Afghans return from Iran, the number of those repatriating has topped 100,000, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.
The United Nations envoy for war-affected children, currently on an official visit to Afghanistan, has stressed that investing in the country’s youth is key to consolidating peace.
The European Commission has pledged over $10 million to the United Nations Mine Action Service for its work in Afghanistan – a move that was immediately hailed by a senior UN official.
Three Afghan factions in a district near Mazar-i-Sharif yesterday began turning over their weapons under United Nations monitoring, in the first voluntary disarmament exercise ever in the country.
