FAO DISTRIBUTES SEEDS TO RETURNEES IN AFGHANISTAN

Seed Distribution Campaign Reaches 60,000 Families

(Reissued as received.)

KABUL/ROME, 18 December (FAO) -- Around 60,000 Afghan farm families have received high quality seeds and fertilizers ahead of the planting season, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY CHILDREN’S DEATHS

IN AFGHANISTAN AIR STRIKES

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday, 7 December:

UN DRUG AND CRIME CHIEF DISCUSSES COUNTER-NARCOTICS EFFORTS

WITH VISITING FOREIGN MINISTER OF AFGHANISTAN

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FIRST-EVER LIVESTOCK CENSUS IN AFGHANISTAN

Restocking of Farm Animals Could Take

Many Years -- Herds Decimated by Drought and War

PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of the press statement on Afghanistan delivered on 17 November by Security CouncilPresident Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):

Members of the Security Council condemned unequivocally the murder on 16 November of Bettina Goislard, a staff member for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS DEADLY ATTACK AGAINST REFUGEE WORKER

IN AFGHANISTAN, CALLS FOR GREATER SECURITY MEASURES

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 16 November:

UNEP PROJECT TO INTEGRATE ENVIRONMENT INTO AFGHANISTAN’S DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

AFGHAN FARMERS TO BENEFIT FROM $6 MILLION PROJECT

TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURAL LIVELIHOODS, SAYS FAO

ROME, 6 October (FAO) -- More than 430,000 farmers in the mountains of the Hazarajat, one of the poorest regions of Afghanistan, will receive assistance over the next four years through a major development project, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a statement today.

OPENING AD HOC MEETING ON AFGHANISTAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR CONTINUED

SUPPORT FOR POLITICAL PROCESS, SECURITY REFORM, RECONSTRUCTION

Following is the statement as delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the high-level ad hoc meeting on Afghanistan:

“SITUATION WITH OPIUM CULTIVATION IN AFGHANISTAN REMAINS

DIFFICULT”, SAYS UN COUNTER-NARCOTICS CHIEF

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