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"The Security Council tonight, acting in response to the deteriorating political, security and humanitarian situation in Haiti, authorized the immediate deployment of Multinational Interim Force for a period of three months to help to secure and stabilize the capital, Port-au-Prince, and elsewhere in the country." [more]
"Security procedures enforced today at the Erez checkpoint out of Gaza prevented Peter Hansen, UNRWA's Commissioner-General and an Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, taking his senior management team from Gaza to a meeting of the Agency's directors in Amman, Jordan. It is the first time in the 53-year history of UNRWA that its quarterly management meeting has had to be cancelled because the Agency's freedom of movement has been curtailed in this way." [more]
The remarks of the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency before the UN Security Council. "No prohibited nuclear activities have been identified," he said. [more]
The remarks of the chief inspector for biological and chemical weapons to the Security Council. "Regrettably, [Iraq's] 12,000-page declaration, most of which is a reprint of earlier documents, does not seem to contain any new evidence that will eliminate the questions [of weapons production]," he said. [more]
"Asked how the Monitoring Group felt about the appearance of new Al Qaeda training camps in eastern Afghanistan, he replied that they were of great concern, since their emergence signified that people were still disillusioned enough to side with Al Qaeda. Indeed, sympathy for the organization was widespread in some countries, he added." [more]
"UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix said [an] agreement had been reached on practical arrangements for inspections, with unconditional and unrestricted access to Iraqi sites." [more]
"Many of the reports of human rights groups contain accounts of wounded civilians waiting days to reach medical assistance, and being refused medical treatment by IDF soldiers. In some cases, people died as a result of these delays. In addition to those wounded in the fighting, there were civilian inhabitants of the camp and the city who endured medication shortages and delays in medical treatment for pre-existing conditions. For example, it was reported on 4 April that there were 28 kidney patients in Jenin who could not reach the hospital for dialysis treatment." [more]
"Close to 1,000 nomads representing 12 tribes from provinces in central and south-central Afghanistan have chosen six district representatives for Afghanistan's Loya Jirga, or tribal council, according to the United Nations mission in the country." [more]
"The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) said it was "Ý'greatly concerned about the recent public vilification of asylum seekers' and urged governments to show leadership in providing accurate and up-to-date information on asylum seekers and promoting a public debate 'based on facts rather than negative stereotyping.'
The High Commissioner's statement follows two weeks of tense protests at the Woomera detention centre, including a hunger strike and threats of self-mutilation by the detainees." [more]
"Deteriorating conditions in eastern Afghanistan are pushing more Afghans to flee towards Pakistan, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported today. 'In the North West Frontier Province area of Pakistan, we have received information from authorities regarding the presence of several thousands of Afghans crowded at the Kurram border area in an attempt to be admitted into Pakistan,' Fatoumata Kaba told reporters in Islamabad." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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