At Sri Lanka&#39;s UN Mission, Working Through the Despair
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THE telephone rang again on the ambassador&#39;s desk, and for a minute the conversation sounded as though it could be about almost anything.
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A United Nations investigator said on  Tuesday that "political killings" continued apace in Sri Lanka  and called for international human rights monitors to be sent  to the island.
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Planning an election is difficult even under the best of circumstances. As one United Nations consultant remarked, it&#39;s &quot;the largest logistical operation that a country undertakes
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Sri Lanka urgently needs an international rights monitoring mission following Colombo's decision to pull out of a ceasefire pact with Tamil rebels, a London-based rights group said.
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MANGANTHODUWA NAWATKUDA, Sri Lanka  - Saundrarajan Kannakai has been displaced by Sri Lanka's civil war over a dozen times in the past 16 years.
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Sri Lanka's reclusive Tamil Tiger rebel leader made a rare personal appeal Wednesday to international aid donors and U. N. organizations to help ethnic Tamils affected by the disastrous tsunami waves that hit the island.
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It is now more than obvious that developments in Myanmar have taken a sad turn. The harden- ing of the junta&#39;s position does not augur well for future United Nations involvement.
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Sri Lanka on Saturday asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan not to visit disaster-stricken areas controlled by the Tamil Tiger rebels, forcing the United Nations into a political situation it had hoped to avoid.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has started organizing what it says will be the biggest relief effort the world have ever seen, to help the survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami.
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Authorities and aid agencies in Sri Lanka are carrying out the relief effort using maps produced by a team of Britons.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations said that the biggest disaster relief operation ever staged would be needed for the Asian tsunami victims as medicines and other emergency supplies started pouring into the worst hit zones.
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Sri Lankan Air Force Squadron Leader Chaminda Wickramaratne is battling monsoon rains and flooded roads as he oversees relief operations along a stretch of coastline where Sunday&#39;s tsunamis
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Sri Lanka&#039;s candidate for the UN secretary general post, Jayantha Dhanapala, is seeking the support of developing nations at this week&#039;s meeting of the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement.
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From Tamil Tiger rebels to Buddhist monks in saffron robes, Sri Lanka stopped to mourn on Friday as rescue workers struggled to clear bloated corpses of victims of the Indian Ocean island's worst natural disaster.
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For Kofi Annan, the widely respected secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), these are no easy times. He has for some weeks now been under intense pressure from the United States Congress to resign for
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Angelina Jolie says her work as a humanitarian ambassador for the United Nations at first left her tearful and overwhelmed.
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COLOMBOâStill reeling from its worst natural disaster in history, Sri Lanka braced today for the painful fallout from &quot;tidal waves terror&quot; that engulfed the island&#39;s shoreline.