First Lady meets with UN Advisor on Burma at White House
First Lady Laura Bush meets with Ibrahim Gambari, UN Special Advisor on Burma, in her office at the White House in Washington on December 17, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The head of the peacekeeping mission in Darfur is called on to avoid encounters with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a U.N. spokesman said.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A U.N. envoy working on peacekeeping operations in Sudan's troubled Darfur region said he was "distressed" by violence targeting his troops.
EL FASHER, Sudan, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Three U.N. peacekeeping personnel were killed while on patrol in North Darfur state in Sudan, the joint U.N.-African Union Mission said.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Three U.N. peacekeepers were killed in an ambush on a camp for displaced people in Darfur, something the U.N. mission there said amounts to a war crime.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 20 (UPI) -- The head of the U.N. mission in Darfur called on Sudanese authorities to release two civilian members of the peacekeeping mission immediately.
YANGON, Myanmar, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A U.N. envoy has met with detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and five senior members of her Myanmar opposition party, observers say.
RANGOON, Myanmar, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A U.N. envoy has tried to encourage talks between Myanmar opposition leaders and the country's military rulers, a U.N. spokesman said.
YANGON, Myanmar, March 8 (UPI) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday left her house in Yangon to meet with a special United Nations envoy, the BBC reported.
YANGON, Myanmar, March 7 (UPI) -- Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. special envoy, arrived Thursday in Myanmar for another effort to get the military junta to talk to its opposition.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The United States has leveled additional sanctions against Myanmar's leaders for their "unacceptable" actions that thwart democracy, the White House said.
