UN envoys fear truce may unravel
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United Nations envoys will meet Israeli   officials on Monday after expressing fears that a week-long   truce between Israel and Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas might   unravel, leading to further bloodshed.
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Many of the most important promises made under a peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war in Sudan's south have not been met, threatening to plunge the long-suffering region back into violence, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report Tuesday.
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Diplomatic efforts to reach quick agreement on a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the escalating Israeli-Hezbollah conflict faltered Wednesday over differences between the United States and France on the timing of an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
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Prolonged deadlock over the  future of Serbia's Kosovo province could create instability in  the region, put U.N. achievements at risk and threaten U.N.  staff, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report.
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Even if the U.N.-imposed cease-fire holds beyond its implementation Monday, the road to truly ending the Hezbollah-Israel conflict is fraught with difficulties. A dizzying set of conflicting interests could quickly fracture the truce.
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Ice-breaking talks over the  disputed Western Sahara were set to end on Tuesday with U.N.  mediators expected to propose further rounds in what the world  body said were &quot;very difficult&quot; negotiations.
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United Nations, Nov 17 (PTI) Ambassadors of the UN Security Council members left for Nairobi to hold a rare meeting outside the headquarters with differences still unresolved over how to end a conflict in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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The United Nations sees a &quot;real danger&quot; of a new war between Hutus and Tutsis in central Africa and is appealing to leaders in Burundi, Congo and Rwanda to deal with extremists and return to the path of reconciliation, its under-secretary general Jean
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KHARTOUM/NAIROBI, Aug 18,2004 (dpa) -- The current number of ceasefire observers in Sudan&#39;s war-ravaged Darfur region is insufficient, the UN envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, said in an interview published Wednesday.
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A rebel threat to withdraw from a cease-fire monitoring commission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region would spell disaster for the faltering peace process, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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U.N. diplomats say they are concerned that calls for Secretary-General Kofi Annan's resignation and allegations of widespread corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq could derail plans for a sweeping reform of the United Nations.
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Announcement of ceasefire with rebel groups to come at start of weekend peace talks, ambassador says.
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There is growing fear among United Nations officials that Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organisation&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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U.N.-brokered talks on the future status of Kosovo are in jeopardy, the deputy United Nations envoy warned Friday at negotiations clouded by a car bombing that targeted the interior minister of the ethnically divided province.
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The United Nations said yesterday it will send peacekeepers to separate warring Congo army factions, warning that the UN troops will repulse any attempt to cross the new buffer zone.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Sudan risks falling into  Somalia-style anarchy if peace talks aimed at ending separate  crises in Darfur and the south fail and embolden more factions  to take up arms, the top U.S. envoy to Sudan said Friday.
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For Israel, the U.N. cease-fire deal is far from perfect. A U.N. force deploying in south Lebanon as part of the truce will have trouble keeping Hezbollah at bay for long or prevent the Iranian-supplied guerrillas from rearming, critics said, pointing to past failures of international peacekeepers.