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| More than 10,000 have fled Syria: UN | |
| 2011-06-14 | |
| UNITED NATIONS More than 10,000 Syrians have fled into neighboring countries to escape a deadly government crackdown on opposition protests, the UN said Monday. There are 5,000 people in Lebanon and at least 5,000 in Turkey, said UN humanitarian affairs spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker. Turkeys Anatolia news agency on Monday estimated there are now more than 6,800 Syrians who have crossed into Turkey. UN emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos praised Syrias neighbors for the help they have given. I commend the neighboring states for keeping their borders open and appreciate the assistance they have given, Amos said in a statement which raised new UN concern about the violence which she said has reportedly killed 1,200 people on top of the thousands of displaced. Amos made a new appeal to the Syrian government to let a UN humanitarian team make a proper assessment. President Bashar al-Assads government has refused to let UN aid experts visit stricken towns and blocked a human rights investigation team from entering the country.
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| UN staff leave Tripoli after mob attack | |||
| 2011-05-03 | |||
| [Al Jazeera] Mobs attacked Western embassies and UN offices in Tripoli after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... bombed Muammar Qadaffy's family compound. Officials said a son of the leader and three of his grandchildren were killed in Sunday's attack. The UN said it had Khaled Kaim, the deputy foreign minister, said on Sunday that the attack was the fourth attempt to assassinate Qadaffy, who was in the building at the time. Kaim denied the presence of command and control facilities in the Tripoli neighbourhood attacked by NATO. He also denied allegations that his government had fabricated the deaths and said church leaders in Libya had been allowed to see the bodies in the hospital.
The ever-popular However... the leaders of the US, Perfidious Albion and La Belle France have said Qadaffy must go, prompting warnings by UN Security Council members Russia, China and Brazil against NATO attempts to change the regime. In some of its strongest language, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday accused NATO of a "disproportionate use of force"
The vandalised embassies were empty and nobody was reported injured. But the attacks heightened tensions between the Libyan regime and Western powers and prompted the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... to pull its international staff out of the capital. The deputy foreign minister regretted the attacks on the embassies, saying the Kaim said Libya would survey the damages and repair them. He said the embassies attacked included the British and the Italian and the US commercial and consular affairs department. | |||
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| Afghanistan |
| Talibs will execute UN workers using computers |
| 2001-09-23 |
The Taliban have threatened to execute any U.N. worker who uses computers and communications equipment in Afghanistan, forcing a near halt to the remaining relief work in the country, U.N. officials said Monday. The militia raided U.N. offices in Kabul, the capital, and Kandahar, where the Taliban leadership is based, during the weekend and sealed their satellite telephones, walkie-talkies, computers and vehicles to bar them from use, according to U.N. spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker. Bunker said that without communications, relief operations would be impossible. "The U.N. has ordered its staff to obey the Taliban directive to avoid risking their lives," she said. "We have requested the Taliban to allow at least one high frequency radio transmitter" in cities with U.N. operations. |
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| Talibs close UN offices in Jalalabad |
| 2001-10-04 |
The United Nations revealed today that the Taliban had closed off several of its offices in Jalalabad. "Some UN offices in Jalalabad are being guarded by the Taliban and are not available to UN staff," UN spokesman Stephanie Bunker told reporters. |
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| UN appeals for protection of civilians |
| 2001-10-09 |
The United Nations appealed for the protection of civilians in Afghanistan after last night's airstrikes killed four security guards for Afghan Technical Consultants, which had an office in a village two miles east of Kabul. The office was near a Taliban communications tower that may have been a target, UN officials said. Stephanie Bunker, a UN spokeswoman in Pakistan, said the guards hadn't been warned or told to relocate. "It was assumed they were safe where they were," she said. "Otherwise, they would have been relocated for sure." |
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| Afghanistan |
| UN spokewoman reports violence and executions at Mazar |
| 2001-11-13 |
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