Fred Eckhard
Fred Eckhard
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He ... urged the leaders to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide them.
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A U.N. disaster assessment and coordination team is being dispatched to Sri Lanka today to work with the government to provide rescue and relief.
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The two sides are expected to start more substantive discussions shortly, ... reiterates his call for the two sides to seize the momentum and work to achieve national reconciliation in Myanmar at an early date.
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This is not so. In any case, the issue is not the executive chairman. It is how to get on with the work of disarming Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.
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We have set up an appointment for Mugabe to meet the secretary-general in Rome therefore we do expect him to be in Rome.
We would be disappointed if this were true,
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Twenty-five candidates already considered and rejected doesn't suggest that there are many names left to consider.
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We ... have experienced some law-and-order problems, and some other growing pains of the mission can be aired at this meeting.
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We're taking every step we can with the support of the coalition forces to secure our headquarters compound.
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Those who speak to the secretary-general are entitled to assume that their exchanges are confidential. The secretary-general therefore would want this practice stopped, if indeed it exists.
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Security around our location was not as secure as you might find at the U.S. compound, and that was a decision we made so that our offices could be more accessible to people. We did not think at the time we were taking an unnecessary risk.
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I think he's been consulting with a number of member states at the highest level, and he's expected to make some decision soon.
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I think it will give the chance to the secretary-general to again appeal for what he needs in the way of people and money to advance the mission there.
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It has opened a pathway to full-fledged and continuing negotiations aimed at a comprehensive approach to durable peace in the region.