Afghan

Afghanistan: UN-backed body steps up efforts for reconstruction

31 January 2007
A high-level United Nations-backed body promoting a five-year development plan for Afghanistan wound up a two-day meeting in Berlin today with a commitment to more aggressive and determined efforts to rebuild the war-torn country, ranging from improving security to easing poverty to fostering human rights.

Afghanistan: UN envoy deplores murder of parliamentarian as assault on democracy

29 January 2007
A senior United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today called on authorities to step up protection for all parliamentarians following the assassination of the first legislator since the new National Assembly was inaugurated over two years ago.

UN sends medicine to fight infections brought on by deadly cold snap in Afghanistan

22 January 2007
Responding to a rise in pneumonia, bronchitis and other acute respiratory infections in Afghanistan following a wave of record cold temperatures there, the United Nations health agency is sending antibiotics for thousands of people and putting in place a system to protect many more from catching the illnesses.

Afghanistan: UN agencies step up aid for 15,000 families displaced by fighting in south

15 January 2007
United Nations agencies have launched a month long emergency operation to provide humanitarian aid to more than 15,000 Afghan families displaced by the insurgency in Kandahar province.
SRSG Tom Koenigs in Kabul

UN’s Afghanistan envoy hails naming of new police officials as step towards stability

14 January 2007
The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has welcomed a Presidential decree confirming the appointment of 40 new police officials to the country's national force as a step towards stability.
Chris Alexander

UN calls on Afghanistan, Pakistan to end war of words and cooperate in fighting Taliban

8 January 2007
A senior United Nations official in Afghanistan today called on the Afghan and Pakistani governments to end their mutual recriminations and cooperate in fighting the Taliban insurgency in the south of the war-torn country, saying it is being fuelled from both sides of the border and urging greater action against the rebellion in Pakistan itself.