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By EPA The French envoy to the United Nations has warned that Burma risks committing "crimes against humanity" in its failure to allow foreign aid in to help victims of the devastating cyclone. Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert said he has appealed during a UN General Assembly session for the United...
France criticized Myanmar's military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food and medicine with small boats and helicopters. Ripert told reporters that when he got up to speak in the U.N. General Assembly about...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) - France criticized Myanmar's military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food and medicine with small boats and helicopters. Ripert told reporters...
Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Florence Mutesi Kigali The number of people living with HIV/AIDS has reduced from 191,437 in 2006 to184,859 in 2007, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) country progress report has said. The report was presented Wednesday to a forum of NGOs at...
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING RIGHT OF RETURN BY REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS TO ABKHAZIA, GEORGIA United Nations General Assembly 15 May 2008 Sixty-second General Assembly Plenary 97th Meeting (AM) In a recorded vote of 14 Member States in favour to 11 against and 105...
What do you do when the world is lined up to help over a million desperate people hit by a cyclone, and Myanmar's hard-line junta blocks that help? That is the unprecedented situation confronting the United Nations, Western aid agencies and humanitarian organizations. Sein Win, exiled prime...
Britain and Europe, as we know, are superior to the United States. On May 14 the Presidency issued a declaration "on behalf of the EU concerning the resumption of executions in the USA".The statement, rather an impertinent one, is a response to the fact that the State of Georgia (for these...
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry criticized as counterproductive on Friday a move by the UN General Assembly to adopt a Tbilisi-sponsored resolution on the return of refugees to Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The resolution recognizing the right of refugees and...
MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRIC countries, have agreed to hold another meeting in September in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The agreement to meet in September on the sidelines of the 63rd UN...
Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier speaks during question period in the Commons May 15, 2008. SKY-HIGH AIR TABS Some of the tabs taxpayers have picked up for Bernier's travels: Total bill for trip to Laos Airfare for each of 2 of the 3 staffers who accompanied Bernier to Laos Bernier's...
