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UN Chief Urges Syria To Stop Attacks

Associated Press — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:36:17 +0000

STANBUL (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Syria to stop its attacks, saying U.N. observers monitoring the ceasefire were not there to watch the killings of innocent people.

Ban was speaking Thursday at a summit of the Alliance of Civilizations, a forum promoting understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, days after more than 100 people were massacred in Syria's central Houla region

Iran To Allow UN Inspectors Into Secret Site

Associated Press — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:44:12 +0000

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it will allow U.N. inspectors access to a secret military complex where the U.N. nuclear agency suspects secret atomic work has been carried out.

A statement issued by the country's permanent envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran says it will allow U

UN Rights Chief Says U.S. Must Close Guantanamo

Associated Press — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:38:01 +0000

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, says "the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained — indefinitely — in clear breach of international law