United Nations

13.06.2007 The UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) plans to start the second phase of monitoring Maoist army personnel to ensure that no minors are serving. UNMIN teams had completed the first phase of registering weapons and personnel in mid-February, when more than 30,850 Maoist personnel were registered and 2,855 weapons were stored.

12.06.2007 Although seizing this fragile opportunity for peace will require international troops on the ground, greater outreach by Somalia's government, and a constructive role from neighboring countries, a top UN official said Monday that "this is the best opportunity for peace that Somalia has had the past 16 years."

07.06.2007 Despite faster growth and strengthened institutions, Africa remains off-track to meeting the world’s shared goals for fighting poverty in all its forms, Deputy UN Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said yesterday.

29.05.2007 The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers falls awkwardly this year, following the eruption of controversy over allegations against Pakistani peacekeepers in Congo. But Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pushed that aside to hail the deployment of more than 100,000 peacekeepers from 115 countries - two records, he said, which “speak of unprecedented confidence in... United Nations peacekeeping.”

23.05.2007 In response to a BBC report that Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the UN said today that an investigation that began last year is still underway.