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The Uruguayan surveillance plane was monitoring the Dominican Republic border as part of its tasks with the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Most of those on board were military officers, a police officer told AFP...The nation has long been ravaged by...
Tags: Haitian, U.N., plane crashes, Eleven United Nations, Dominican Republic, military personnel, surveillance plane, plane carrying, Uruguayan, Michele Montas
Win Tin and Tin Oo - both senior members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. According to Nyan Win, one of Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers, prosecutors had argued that Win Tin, a journalist and former political prisoner, should not be allowed...
Tags: Burma Media Association, Myanmar, North Korea, Aung San Suu Kyi, Michele Montas, Japan, Burmese, myanmar later, longstanding concerns, Ban Ki Moon
It was not immediately clear if the militias were government allies or backed by rebels fighting Khartoum. At the United Nations in New York, spokeswoman Michele Montas said the attack lasted two hours and the assailants used heavy weapons. December 31...
Tags: U.N.-African Union, Sudan, peacekeepers killing, Michele Montas, United Nations, darfur region, Darfur, possible terms, strongest possible, seven peacekeepers
Myanmar's junta kept a French navy ship laden with aid waiting outside its maritime border on Saturday, and showed off neatly laid out state relief camps to diplomats. The stage-managed tour appeared aimed at countering global criticism of the junta's...
Tags: Myanmarï, U.N., Cyclone Nargis, cyclone survivors, relief effort, Michele Montas, Irrawaddy River, general ban, relief camps, Yangon
The United Nations stands ready to help earthquake victims in China, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Michele Montas said Thursday. "The secretary-general is watching the situation there very carefully," Montas told reporters at the UN Headquarters....
Tags: stands ready, Michele Montas, China
April 16 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with visiting South Korean President Lee Myung Bak Wednesday at the UN Headquarters. Ban's spokesperson Michele Montas told a noon briefing that the morning meeting lasted about half an hour and...
Tags: South Korean-U.S, Michele Montas, korean president, told reporters