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Archive (21 October 2005)

Today's Features

Hole In Ozone Layer: WMO Calls for More Vigilance and Adherence to International Instruments
UNDP Resident Representative Says Response to Earthquake Appeal is Just "Average"
Head of Inquiry into Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri Explains Decision to Omit Some Names from Report

Today's News

WHO Says Bird Flu Is Probably Spread by Migratory Birds
WFP Says Insecurity in Darfur Threatens Relief Work
WFP Says It Is Short of Funding for Food Aid to Pakistan
NATO Increases Operations to Help Victims of South Asia Earthquake
UN Secretary-General Says Detlev Mehlis Probe Is Independent

Caribbean News

The UN Security Council presses Haiti to hold free and fair elections this year
The UN special envoy to Haiti says the country has made progress towards organizing the electoral process
The Caribbean Community views the New Partnership for African Development as a viable framework for the development of the continent
The Group of 77 developing countries and China urges the international community to pay particular attention to foreign direct investment in Africa
Barbados says the situation of children in many places around the world is a cause for great concern
Trinidad and Tobago says the work of the Department of Public Information shapes world public opinion of the United Nations.

UN Calling Asia

Poverty Day highlights Tita Villarosa's life in a cemetery in Manila, Philippines
"A second massive wave of death" will occur in north Pakistan unless relief efforts are strengthened, says UN Secretary-General Annan and calls on NATO and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to help
WHO says the avian flu must be contained in Asia as birds become infected across continents

Perspective

THE UNITED NATIONS CHASES WAR CRIMINALS: the International Criminal Court issues its first arrest warrant: the leadership of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda is on the run; an update on the work of the criminal tribunals of Rwanda and Yugoslavia; the Special Court of Sierra Leone wants Nigeria to surrender Charles Taylor; the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide is disappointed with the work of the Sudanese national courts; and 23 years after the massacre of civilians by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, the UN and Cambodia agree on standards for establishing a court to try the ageing Khmer Rouge leaders.