UN Chief: Israel, Palestinians must resume peace talks

""Permanent status issues, including Jerusalem, borders, refugees, security, settlements and water will be resolved only through negotiations," Ban said in a message to the UN meeting in support of...

Politician Health Scares: Sarkozy And Scheffer Leave Hospitals

This past week, fatigue-related health incidents have caused hospitalizations of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. Will politicians have to change their daily routines to allow for more 'down' time, or is exhaustion part of...

Denmark’s PM steps down to become the new head of NATO

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has resigned from his position to take over the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in August of this year. Rasmussen was named the next Secretary...

Ban welcomes denuclearization progress in Korean Peninsula

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the agreement between the Untied States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on denuclearization verification measures for attaining a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula. Moon stressed on the need for all to meet their...

Nepal: The Coming Constitution and the Issue of Transformation

The Nepalis have never obtained an opportunity to draft their constitution by themselves. So far they have been ruled by the constitutions designed by individual elites and traditional power-wielders. In other...

UN chief asks Yudhoyono to help ease tensions in Myanmar

""Whether I will have direct communication in the present situation, I am still considering it .... And if its necessary and will bring benefit, of course, I as an ASEAN member and my Myanmarese friend, we could...

RI tries to bridge differences on climate change issues

""Therefore we should know how the developing nations could obtain technology, either from the developed nations or from others," he said. He also believed mitigation could also be carried out by protecting and...

Yudhoyono to meet World Bank President over Soeharto`s wealth

"The launching of the StAR Initiative was attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank president Robert B Zoelick, the director of the UN office for Drugs and Crimes, Antonio Maria Costa, and a number...

Bali must advance negotiating agenda, UN chief says

"Making the issue on of his top priority, the UN chief said, "Bali must be the political response to the recent scientific reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). All countries must do...

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