US, UN Want Jakarta to Clarify Aid Restrictions
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Leaders in the  international tsunami aid effort expressed concern about how  curbs on the movement of workers and a deadline for foreign  troops to leave would affect relief in Indonesia's worst-hit  Aceh province.
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Israel has dropped its objections to Indonesia joining the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, and the two sides are now discussing when Jakarta would send a promised 1,000 troops, a U.N. official said Friday.
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US diplomats have confronted the UN Development Program (UNDP) with new allegations that its funds were misused and improperly diverted by North Korea, the US mission to the UN said Saturday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The United Nations lifted a travel ban yesterday on aid workers in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province, the scene of a decades-long conflict between rebels and government forces that has raised concerns about the safety of relief efforts.
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Sanctions the U.S. is seeking could start with restrictions on IranÂs imports of nuclear material, but the plan faces a high hurdle at the U.N.
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The United States wants a U.N. Security Council resolution that would pressure Myanmar to stop jailing political opponents, persecuting minorities and flooding the region with refugees, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia sought to  reassure Western aid workers after a gunfire incident Sunday in  the major tsunami aid base of Banda Aceh raised safety fears.
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ACEH BESAR, Indonesia -- The United Nations has banned its staff from traveling in parts of tsunami-battered Aceh province because of reported fighting between Indonesian troops and separatist rebels. But a rebel commander yesterday begged foreign aid workers to stay and promised that guerrillas will not attack relief groups.
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Palestinian officials have called on the Bush administration to clarify its position on the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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Indonesia faces major obstacles in its fight against bird flu, the UN Children's Fund said as officials reiterated calls for more international financial aid.
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New rules to help the United Nations contain public health emergencies took effect on Friday, requiring countries to disclose potential threats from disease, chemical agents, radioactive materials and contaminated food.
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The US embassy in Jakarta warned on Thursday of possible terrorism attacks in Indonesia against Americans or American interests, saying the trial of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir could increase the dangers.
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Indonesia ordered aid workers and journalists on Wednesday to declare travel plans or face expulsion from the country's tsunami-devastated Aceh province as authorities moved to reassert control of the rebellion-wracked area.
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United Nations security officials have declared a state of "heightened awareness" for U.N. relief workers in Indonesia pending investigation of a warning issued by the Danish Foreign Ministry, a spokeswoman said Monday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The Indonesian government yesterday told foreign military forces to leave by the end of March and tightened controls over the movement of international aid workers, raising concerns that relief might not reach isolated regions that need it most.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday he will visit tsunami-devastated Indonesia to work with regional leaders to help coordinate aid and relief efforts on the ground.
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Indonesia will push forward the suggestions on how to resolve the crisis in Iraq that its leader presented after meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush earlier this week, a minister said on Wednesday.