UN to help tackle Iraq pollution
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The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) has said it will help Iraq clean up the toxic pollution caused by a decade of conflict.
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NEW YORK A dangerous outgrowth of the deadly bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad a year ago has been an orgy of outrage and self-pity that has increasingly paralyzed the UN&#39;s capacity to respond meaningfully to needs in Iraq that it
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WASHINGTON -- The United Nations special representative for Iraq yesterday painted a bleak picture of the situation on the ground and ruled out a large-scale return of UN personnel to Iraq, despite mounting US and Iraqi pressure for more UN help with elections that are slated for January.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan, under fire in Washington over the U.N. role in Iraq, said that the United States and the United Nations have the greatest impact on global issues when they work together.
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The United Nations has sentexperts to help with rescue and relief work in Indonesia, India and other Asian countries stricken by powerful earthquakes and tidal waves, a UN spokesman said on Sunday.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his hope to an international meeting on water, sanitation and hygiene that one day the world will no longer have to face the dire consequences of inadequate access to safe drinking water and basic
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The international community must pay to clean up Ivory Coast sites polluted by toxic waste, the UN says.
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ELECTION: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained that the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country&#39;s January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help with the vital balloting.
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The United Nations will open a new office in Baghdad to encourage cooperation between Iraq and its neighbors as part of the world body's efforts to expand its presence in Iraq, the U.N. secretary-general said Saturday.
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Our position is: United Nations must be more open about mistakes made in oil-for-food scandal. When the United Nations in 1996 began allowing Iraq to sell oil to raise money to buy food and medicine, the program
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 8 -- The United Nations has delayed the release of a quarterly report on human rights in Iraq to avoid criticizing Washington and Baghdad while they are seeking to rally congressional and international support for the war effort, according to U.N. officials.
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UNITED NATIONS - Iraq urged regional and world powers yesterday to back an expanded United Nations role in Iraq, but UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said there was more to be done on security before he could increase UN staff.
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The United States should withhold some of its UN contributions until the world body cooperates with congressional probes of alleged corruption in the Iraqi oil-for
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The United Nations is adopting  new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard  against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food  program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.
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Iraq invites the UN nuclear watchdog to check on the disappearance of materials from its former nuclear sites.
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The No. 2 United Nations official met with top Iraqi leaders in Baghdad on Thursday to promote a new partnership meant to help muster political and economic support for Iraq&#039;s government, the U.N. said.
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The Greens are hopeful Kofi Annan&#39;s statement that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal will help lead more people around the world to think the same.