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UNITED NATIONS: Roughly 200 UN expatriate staff will be temporarily relocated outside Afghanistan in the wake of a deadly rebel attack on a guesthouse for UN workers, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said here Friday. “Approximately 200 will relocate to other duty stations in the region,” the UN secretary general told reporters after briefing the Security Council on his recent visit to Kabul. “It is not 600 as has been reported by some media,” he added. “We are not evacuating. We will not, cannot and must not be deterred. Our work will continue. Our colleagues will have to manage temporarily with less administrative support.” Earlier ... Read Full Story

06 November, 2009 09:44:00 Yan Font size: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed on Friday that the world body is not evacuating staff from Afghanistan despite the dangerous security situation there.     Ban, who has just returned from an overseas tour that included Afghanistan, briefed the UN Security Council on the recent developments in the Central Asian country.     The UN is taking immediate steps to bolster security for all UN staff in the country, including the short-term relocating of some international staff, he told reporters.     He refuted some media reports that had "inaccurately characterized this as withdrawal or evacuation."     "We are not moving any international staff ... Read Full Story

ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday made a plea for strengthening global efforts to create a better future for immigrants. He told the third U.N.-supported Global Forum on Migration and Development in Athens that immigrants were hurt by the global financial crisis more than the population at large. He encouraged nations to ensure their health, happiness and prosperity were safeguarded. Ban said vulnerable migrants such as women and children, who he said suffer degradation, are pushed into forced labor, prostitution and even organ removal to survive, the Athens News Agency reported. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou opened the conference ... Read Full Story

Money paid by rich countries to fight global warming will have to "be scaled up" from the $100bn a year on offer, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said today. Finance is the key, said Ban, to successful negotations on a global treaty to fight climate change, due to conclude at UN talks next month in Copenhagen.' Read more... Read Full Story

Europa NewsWire. Photo: Fardin Waezi (UNAMA). 2 November 2009 - The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kabul today following the attack on a Kabul guesthouse last week in which five UN staff members were killed and others were injured. Mr Ban will meet UN staff, his Special Representative and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Kai Eide, heads of UN agencies and security officials. The Secretary-General will also meet Dr Abdullah Abdullah and President Hamid Karzai to assure them and the Afghan people of the continuing support of the United Nations towards the development of the ... Read Full Story