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  • UN Peacebuilding meeting brings together range of players to explore UN News Centre 07 Nov 2007 -- The United Nations Peacebuiding Commission has made important progress in its first year of operations but needs more support, concluded a meeting in Geneva of more than 150 representatives of governments, UN entities, regional organizations and civil society groups attending a conference in Geneva.
  • Assembly President highlights human-centred approach to security UN News Centre 07 Nov 2007 -- A human-centred approach to security – one that extends beyond the State and focuses more on the protection and empowerment of people – lies at the core of an evolving new culture of international relations, General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim said today.

  • U.S. aggravating situation in Georgian conflict zones - Russian gen. RIA Novosti 07 Nov 2007 -- American interference is aggravating relations between Georgia and its two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Wednesday.
  • “New Opportunity” Now Exists for Reconciliation in Somalia Washington File 07 Nov 2007 -- Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government now has a “new opportunity” to promote peace and reconciliation and bring the communities in Somalia together, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told the Voice of America November 6.
  • NEPAL: 5,000 families safe to go home IRIN 07 Nov 2007 -- More than 5,000 displaced families taking refuge in Nepalgunj, a Nepalese city adjoining India, will be able to return home by December, according to aid agencies.
  • DRC: MONUC blames disinformation as protests over aid mount in North Kivu IRIN 07 Nov 2007 -- Growing impatience over aid deliveries to displaced civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo’s province of North Kivu has sparked another demonstration against the UN mission there, MONUC, which blamed the unrest on deliberately-spread false rumours.
  • SOMALIA: Mogadishu residents trapped by violence - MSF IRIN 07 Nov 2007 -- Increasing violence in parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu has trapped many residents, leaving them with no safe place to go, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on 7 November.
  • SUDAN: Team arrives to probe deadly JIU attack in Yambio IRIN 07 Nov 2007 -- Southern Sudan's government has sent a team to Yambio in Western Equatoria State to investigate a weekend attack on a police station which left three senior officers dead, local officials said on 7 November.
  • Regional collaboration key to West Africa's security, UN envoy says UN News Centre 07 Nov 2007 -- As West African officials gathered today in Liberia for a meeting on issues of common concern, the senior United Nations envoy to the country stressed the importance of effective regional collaboration in ensuring security in the area.
  • DR Congo: UN official meets authorities in North Kivu UN News Centre 07 Nov 2007 -- Aiming to facilitate efforts to achieve a lasting solution to the crisis in the strife-torn North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a senior United Nations official has held meeting with local authorities there.
  • Tension, military build-up continues on Ethiopia-Eritrea border – Ban Ki-moon UN News Centre 07 Nov 2007 -- The continuing tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the failure to resolve their longstanding boundary dispute and the military build-up along their common border are causes for serious concern, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon states in a new report.
  • Ban Ki-moon calls for stepped-up efforts to achieve Israeli-Lebanese peace UN News Centre 07 Nov 2007 -- The months ahead will be critical to fully implementing the Security Council resolution that ended last year’s war between Israel and Hizbollah, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his latest report in which he calls for greater progress on a series of fronts so that a permanent ceasefire can be reached.
  • Russian Action on "Frozen Conflicts" Can Save Key Security Pact Washington File 07 Nov 2007 -- The United States is committed to helping Russia take necessary steps toward resolving "frozen conflicts" in Georgia and Moldova and thus defusing the Kremlin’s threat to suspend the Conventional Forces Europe (CFE) Treaty, one of history’s most successful arms control agreements.
  • Bashir Pledges Peace in Southern Sudan VOA 07 Nov 2007 -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says he is fully committed to a peace accord with former southern Sudanese rebels
  • Serbia War Crimes Tribunal Opens VOA 07 Nov 2007 -- The trial of Serb-Nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj has opened at the U.N. war crimes Tribunal in The Hague
  • Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Tensions Raise New International Alert VOA 07 Nov 2007 -- An advisory this week from the Brussels-based International Crisis Group is alerting world bodies and governments to stop Ethiopia and Eritrea from sliding back into a protracted border war
  • Turkish Prime Minister says PKK Rebels Must be Eliminated VOA 07 Nov 2007 -- Turkey's prime minister says the Kurdistan Workers Party is an enemy that must be eliminated

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