Clash outside UN hq in Geneva: 17 hurt

GENEVA. Aug 7 Seventeen people were hurt. 16 of them policemen. during clash outside the United Nations here invohring some 4.000 demonstrators protesting violence In Bosnia-Herzegovirib. police said today. The demonstrators clashed with police as they attempted to break Into the UN headquarters, where talks on settling the conflict in the former Yugoslav republic have been taking place Demonstrators threw stoners and bottles at police who responded with tear gas and water canons, police said reports AFP

UN help sought to settle Tajik-Afghan border crisis

MOSCOW Aug 7: Russia and four of its CIS Cental Aslan partners called on the United Nations today to help them find a political settlement the mounting Tajik-Afghan border crisis. Meeting here for an emergency summit, the five states called on the UN Security Council to 'examine the situation and to take various measures Including the eventual sending out of UN observers,' according to a Joint final declaration cited by the Itar-Tass news agency, reports AFP