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NEW YORK - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today outlined seven priorities for 2010, beginning with the urgent need for a renewed focus on sustainable development, including advancing efforts to achieve the globally agreed…

9 January 2010 - Not many ordinary Afghans are aware of their basic rights after years of war and instability and even the most simple of privileges are not realized by some. A middle class citizen may not be able to tell you…

7 January 2010 - Download UNAMA's review of the week in stories and photos. UNAMA NEWS - UNAMA PHOTOS

NEW YORK - The Security Council discussed the situation in Afghanistan today, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressing the twin needs to strengthen the Government’s role while coordinating “broader and more effective”…

NEW YORK - Afghanistan will remain a priority for the United Nations in 2010, the Secretary-General told the Security Council on Wednesday. Despite the flawed elections and the deteriorating security situation, Ban Ki-moon…

NEW YORK - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's briefing to the Security Council on Afghanistan. Mr. President, Excellencies, Let me begin by offering my warmest greetings for the New Year, 2010. I hope and trust that it will…

NEW YORK - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his Special Representative for Afghanistan Kai Eide, and Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United Nations in New York Zahir Tanin, have been addressing the Security Council. Full…

KABUL - UNAMA reviews 2009 in Afghanistan with a series of articles looking back. Of the seven years that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has been in existence, 2009 would probably qualify as the…

KABUL - Dozens of United Nations personnel made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty last year with at least 28 civilian staff members and seven peacekeeping troops killed in deadly attacks, the world body’s staff union…

6 January 2010 - The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Kai Eide, will address the United Nations Security Council in New York today, on his expectations for Afghanistan in the next six to nine…