Yangon - United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes acknowledged Thursday that the international community's relief effort for the victims of Cyclome Nargis in Myanmar was losing millions of dollars to the regime's foreign exchange controls.
United Nations, July 23 : If sources at the United Nations are to be believed, Pakistan government has assured the international body that it will provide all the money required for an investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The investigation could cost Pakistan more than 100 million US dollars (approx Rs 700 crore Pakistani rupees) and might take up to 14 months to complete.
Berlin - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has emphatically denied reports he expressed concern over moves to issue an international arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Beshir for genocide in Darfur.
Reports on Sudanese radio that he had expressed great concern over the application by International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo were "completely false," Ban told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) in an interview published Wednesday.