Latest Central Asia United Nations News
- Minister, Seeking EU Support, Warns War With Russia 'Very Close' 11 May 2008 04:30 GMT
... military activity should be left to the United Nations -- under whose aegis Russian peacekeepers ... Svante Cornell, the research director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road studies program ...
- Do we want the corn or not? 10 May 2008 22:26 GMT
... FRI., MAY 9, 2008 - 1:16 PM Wineke: ... Egypt, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique, Bolivia, Uzbekistan and Burkina Faso. (OK, I looked it ... According to Jacques Diouf, director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, world food prices ...
- Dissent: Voices of Conscience (Paperback) 10 May 2008 22:08 GMT
... By Ann Wright and Susan Dixon, Foreword by Daniel ... People's History of the U.S. During the run-up to war in Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.) ... 2001. Her other overseas assignments include Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada, Micronesia, and Nicaragua. On March 19, 2003, ...
- Oil to Gold Ratio and the Folly of creating fuel from Food 10 May 2008 22:06 GMT
... Indonesia, Egypt, Vietnam, China and India have all stated ... massive riots in many third world nations. Kazakhstan the world’s largest exporter of wheat has also ... jasmine, basmati and long grain white rice UN says soaring price of basic foods such ...
- As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap 10 May 2008 18:56 GMT
... KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- A gloomy Vladimir Putin ... 200,000 from 2003 to 2006, according to United Nations statistics; that does not include the unregistered. ... percent in neighboring Poland. Ulugbek Zainabudinov, an Uzbek opposition activist, fled to Russia after a bloody ...
- Beluga caviar at risk of "extinction" within a decade 10 May 2008 15:49 GMT
... Poaching and pollution are reducing, year after year, the sturgeon ... of sturgeon. Now the coastal countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan) are discussing a moratorium, ...
- Ex-Guantanamo Commander 10 May 2008 14:40 GMT
... Command, which oversees the Middle East and Central Asia, the officials said yesterday, confirming an ... of the facility. In February 2006, the United Nations concluded that the treatment of detainees ...
- Afghanistan's Untouchables 10 May 2008 11:18 GMT
... In a land where corruption is king and justice a ... McGill University before being tapped by the United Nations for a post in post-Taliban Afghanistan. President ... warrant issued for his arrest after the Uzbek warlord allegedly attacked a rival – head of ...
- Global Food Crisis Has Many Causes, Experts Say 10 May 2008 07:19 GMT
... May 09, 2008 (Voice of America News/ContentWorks via COMTEX) ... doubled in Senegal. Bread prices doubled in Tajikistan. The cost of maize in Uganda rose 65 ... the world food crisis," notes Joachim von Braun, who heads the International Food Policy Research ...
- Authorities to withhold half of salary as a âvoluntary donationâ for public works 10 May 2008 04:59 GMT
... More than half of the population is living below ... of 2008 was 213 somoni (about $60). United Nations figures depict an even worse picture. According ... by the UN World Food Programme, 550,000 Tajiks are suffering from malnutrition, and roughly 260,000 are ...
- Shaking down the Tajiks 10 May 2008 04:57 GMT
... The government of Tajikistan shakes down its population amid deepening economic dysfunction, ... spirit of Joseph Stalin, officials in Tajikistan, Central Asia's poorest state, have asked residents in ... will be used to help finance the Rogun hydroelectric power plant, a long-stalled project that ...
- Russia and Georgia on the brink of armed conflict over Abkhazia 10 May 2008 04:44 GMT
... states of the CIS: Armenia, Belorussia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Russia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Although Georgia's participation in this ... of the Washington establishment, the region of Central Asia, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus is ...
- Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma? 10 May 2008 04:44 GMT
... dead and missing at more than 60,000. UN officials estimate the death toll at 100,000 and ... around to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Central Asia republics. Burma is a significant hole in US ...
- Seeking more freedom, Russians and others in region flock to 10 May 2008 04:40 GMT
... Rights groups complain that Ukraine is stingy with ... 200,000 from 2003 to 2006, according to United Nations statistics; that does not include the unregistered. ... percent in neighboring Poland. Ulugbek Zainabudinov, an Uzbek opposition activist, fled to Russia after a bloody ...
- Remember Andijan? 9 May 2008 23:51 GMT
... How sadly right he was. In the weeks and months ... their military base at Karshi-Khanabad in southern Uzbekistan. The European Union went a step further, ... has relatively little compared to its neighbours Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and most of it has ...
- Seeking more freedom, Russians and others in region flock to Ukraine 9 May 2008 23:51 GMT
... Rights groups complain that Ukraine is stingy with ... 200,000 from 2003 to 2006, according to United Nations statistics; that does not include the unregistered. ... percent in neighboring Poland. Ulugbek Zainabudinov, an Uzbek opposition activist, fled to Russia after a bloody ...
- Food becoming larger concern than security in Afghanistan 9 May 2008 19:27 GMT
... in the region, but other nations in south-central Asia have their own food issues to ... response to a global plea from the United Nations for $755-million to assist in what has ... made by the Afghan government and the UN. That donation translated to about 12,000 tonnes ...
- Food larger concern than security: Afghanistan 9 May 2008 18:52 GMT
... in the region, but other nations in south-central Asia have their own food issues to ... response to a global plea from the United Nations for $755-million to assist in what has ... made by the Afghan government and the UN. That donation translated to about 12,000 tonnes ...
- Tibet, Palestine and the politics of failure 9 May 2008 18:48 GMT
... of the Arab League and of the United Nations. The victims of "post-colonial sequestration", by contrast, ... colonial or (in the case of the central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union) ... and frontiers in Africa, the middle east, central Asia and Latin America testifies to this, as ...
- Food larger concern than security: Afghanistan 9 May 2008 18:34 GMT
... in the region, but other nations in south-central Asia have their own food issues to ... response to a global plea from the United Nations for $755-million to assist in what has ... made by the Afghan government and the UN. That donation translated to about 12,000 tonnes ...
- Seeking more freedom, Russians and others in region flock to Ukraine 9 May 2008 16:49 GMT
... Rights groups complain that Ukraine is stingy with ... 200,000 from 2003 to 2006, according to United Nations statistics; that does not include the unregistered. ... percent in neighboring Poland. Ulugbek Zainabudinov, an Uzbek opposition activist, fled to Russia after a bloody ...
- Authorities to withhold half of salary as a âvoluntary donationâ for public works 9 May 2008 14:12 GMT
... More than half of the population is living below ... of 2008 was 213 somoni (about $60). United Nations figures depict an even worse picture. According ... by the UN World Food Programme, 550,000 Tajiks are suffering from malnutrition, and roughly 260,000 are ...
- Egypt extends ration cards to 17m more 9 May 2008 09:49 GMT
... Egypt has opened its ration card system to an extra ... of their income on food and in Tajikistan, an impoverished Central Asian republic, their problems have been worsened ...
- National Guard to form partnership with Republic of Senegal 9 May 2008 07:29 GMT
... then expanded to include the Balkans and central Asia. New efforts to include Africa, Dubie ... that has played a key role in United Nations peace-keeping missions in Darfur, Sudan. The ...
- Transcript of a Press Briefing by Masood Ahmed, Director, External Relations Department 9 May 2008 04:42 GMT
... Economic Outlook on the Middle East and Central Asia. This will be done in Dubai ... share to be targeted, we have an overrun of some people who have volunteered. So ... of the IMF delegation's recent visit to Tajikistan. On Tajikistan, what I can say is that ...
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