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UN climate chief holds out hope for global pact

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. climate chief has a message for naysayers about the Copenhagen climate conference next month: It will succeed. Yvo De Boer, the U.N. official who is shepherding the talks, sought to assure reporters Thursday that the ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, EcoEarth News,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  U.S. Congress,  European Union,  Angela Merkel,  Nicolas Sarkozy

Italian agriculture chief blasts food speculation

UNITED NATIONS—Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia called Thursday for a ban on speculation in the financial markets on the price of food. Zaia, whose nation holds the rotating chair of the club of wealthy nations known as the G-8, said he ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, Boston Globe,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Ban Ki-moon,  Food and Agriculture Organization

UN proposes $4.88 billion budget

Almost nine out of 10 countries that belong to the United Nations have not paid their dues in full, a senior U.N. official said Wednesday. Angela Kane, the U.N.'s undersecretary-general for management, told reporters that 170 of the U.N.'s 192 ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, Taiwan News,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Barack Obama,  Ban Ki-moon,  U N Security Council

UN chief calls Afghan runoff 'huge challenge'

The U.N. chief calls a second round of Afghan elections a "huge challenge" while commending Afghan President Hamid Karzai for endorsing a runoff next month. Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that Karzai's endorsement and his acceptance of a fraud panel's ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, TheNewsTribune.com,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  United Nations,  Ban Ki-moon,  Abdullah Abdullah

Palestinians accuse Hamas over UN report

UNITED NATIONS—The militant Islamist group Hamas is trying to take cynical advantage of a U.N. report accusing Israel of possible war crimes in Gaza to curry favor back home, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki told reporters at U.N. headquarters ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, Boston Globe,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hamas,  United Nations,  Mahmoud Abbas

Palestinians change course on UN report

UNITED NATIONS—The Palestinian leadership has shifted course and endorsed a U.N. Security Council debate next week over a U.N. report accusing Israel of possible war crimes in Gaza. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki acknowledges a "clear crisis" ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, Boston Globe,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Hamas,  U N Security Council

UN council to discuss Gaza war crimes on Oct. 14

Prodded by Libya, the U.N. Security Council agreed after a two-hour emergency session Wednesday to hold its monthly meeting on the Middle East a week earlier than planned to discuss alleged war crimes in Gaza last winter. Palestinians, Arab ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, eTaiwan News,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U N Security Council,  Hamas,  Mahmoud Abbas,  Richard Goldstone

UN council to discuss possible Gaza session

The president of the U.N. Security Council says its members will meet Wednesday to discuss Libya's request for an emergency session on alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza. Vietnam's ambassador Le Luong Minh told The Associated ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, Taiwan News,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  U N Security Council,  Le Luong Minh,  Palestinian Authority

Iran open to higher level talks with world powers

UNITED NATIONS - Iran's foreign minister said Thursday his nation is willing to raise and extend its dialogue on a wide variety of issues to a "summit" level with world powers. ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Manouchehr Mottaki,  Ban Ki-moon,  U N Security Council

Top Sudan adviser says 'no way' president will bow

A top adviser to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Monday that the International Criminal Court's pursuit of al-Bashir on war crimes charges has been complicating the Sudanese leader's travel plans. Sudanese adviser to the President ...

From JOHN HEILPRIN, Taiwan News,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: United Nations General Assembly,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

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