U.N. chief asked to call urgent summit
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The top U.N. official for the environment asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to convene an emergency international summit to combat global climate change, an official said, joining a growing chorus of world leaders and scientists calling for urgent action to cut greenhouse gases.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the world on Tuesday to learn from the killer Asian tsunami, saying spending now could limit the loss of life and damage from inevitable natural disasters.
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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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Washington&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations has urged Secretary-General Kofi Annan to promptly release all information concerning the scandal-ridden Iraq oil-for-food program.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called today for the immediate release of Burma&#39;s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and urged the government to open &quot;a substantive dialogue&quot; with opposition parties and ethnic minorities to demonstrate its commitment to ...
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an unprecedented world response to what is an unprecedented wave disaster in the Indian Ocean.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told President Bush on Friday that "I need your strong support" to resolve global problems.
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United Nations head Kofi Annan has urged the Security Council to take &quot;prompt action&quot; to stop intensifying violence in the Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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The Security Council asked the U.N. chief on Wednesday to plan for the possible deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Somalia to replace African Union troops.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called for immediate action on Wednesday to end what he termed a near hell on earth in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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In an unprecedented video conference with the United Nation Correspondents Association (UNCA) last night, President Chen Shui-bian ( é³æ°´æ ) called on the organization to help arrange
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The UN Security Council called an emergency meeting Monday at the request of Arab nations to consider a resolution demanding an immediate halt to a major Israeli offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.
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The head of the UN opens high-level talks at the climate change conference in Bali with a call to action.
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Intervening in a Security Council debate, Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the panel on Thursday to act quickly on a new resolution to curb the violence in Darfur
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With worries growing about a possible flu pandemic, the World Health Organisation has called an unprecedented summit meeting for Nov. 11 in Geneva, Switzerland, to draft response plans in the event of a global
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Kofi Annan today called on the UN security council to issue &quot;the strongest warning&quot; to forces fighting in Sudan to bring an end to the civil war in the south and the crisis in the western Darfur region.
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A Washington-based policy group says the United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan must take responsibility for his staff&#39;s actions.