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KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul by Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan.
KABUL - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, held his first press conference in Kabul today following the extension of the UNAMA mandate by the Security Council.
22 March 2010 - The Security Council voted today to extend the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for another 12 months and to expand its mandate to include support for the parliamentary elections scheduled for September.
22 March 2010 - In February 1,727 anti-personnel mines, 135 anti-tank mines and 110,194 explosive remnants of war were destroyed. Nineteen communities were cleared of mines and almost 150,000 people received mine risk education in Afghanistan.
22 March 2010 - From various parts of the country, including the remotest of locations, they came in thousands.
There weren’t half as many people as last year, still, enough crowds thronged to the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif to celebrate Nowruz, the Afghan New Year.
20 March 2010 - Download the latest weekly programme from UNAMA Radio in Dari and Pashto broadcast on Radio Afghanistan every Saturday morning.