Topic: United Nations
The Democratic Republic of Congo government said Thursday it backs plans to start winding up the UN mission in the war-torn country later this year and hopes the pullout will be completed in 2011. The withdrawal will "crown a job well done, when all's said and done, and which had the great merit of helping us end a war ...
Nepal's peace process is at a "very serious point", the United Nations' top political official said Thursday, urging party leaders to act on pledges made at the end of the war. B. Lynn Pascoe said he was concerned that the peace process had stalled, three and a half years after the decade-long conflict between Maoist guerrillas and the state ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change. Sarkozy, opening a one-day conference on deforestation, stood by the UN, saying there was "no alternative strategy" to a forum that gave all nations, rich and poor, a voice in a global ...
