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Security Council unanimously backs UNIFIL mandate extension (26.08.2010)

(Quelle: The Daily Star)

The Security Council has expressed unanimous support for the upcoming extension of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) mission, media reports said on Wednesday.

 


UN appoints Jack Lang as new Somalia piracy adviser (26.08.2010)

(Quelle: BBC)

The former French minister Jack Lang is to become the United Nations' special adviser on piracy, it has emerged. Mr Lang, 70, a former professor of international law, will advise on ways of prosecuting pirates captured off Somalia.