With the situation in the conflict zone in Abkhazia deteriorating, the Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) for six months, through January, 2002.
The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today sentenced a former police chief to ten years' imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed in 1992 and 1993 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The number of ethnic Albanians returning from Kosovo to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has risen sharply over the past few days as more and more people decide to return to the now open Aracinovo village outside of Skopje, the United Nations refugee agency said today.
The United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) has introduced a more aggressive approach to dealing with that country's problems in human trafficking and prostitution as well as countering the increased ability of traffickers to escape detection.
The United Nations refugee agency today said it was in contact with Turkish and Greek authorities over recent reports of a group of Africans allegedly "dumped" on the border between the two countries.
Briefing the Security Council today on efforts to engage Kosovo Serbs in the forthcoming province-wide elections, a senior United Nations official welcomed the decision by four Kosovo Serb parties to submit certification applications for the ballot.
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today unsealed the indictment against a retired Croatian army general charged with crimes against humanity, and urged Zagreb to immediately arrest him.
A Croatian general has surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to face charges of crimes against humanity, a spokesman for the court announced today.
The top United Nations official in Kosovo today signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Committee for the Missing Persons (ICMP) which will pave the way for DNA testing to match relatives of the missing with unidentified remains.
Visiting Kosovo today, United States President George W. Bush endorsed the efforts of the United Nations mission in the province to prepare Kosovars for taking on greater responsibility in "running their own affairs."
