Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended a six-month extension in the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), according to a document released today at UN Headquarters in New York.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today said the decision by the Netherlands to almost double its contribution to the agency’s core budget was a welcome show of support in advance of next year’s UN forum on sustainable development.
The Commissioner of the United Nations International Police Task Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina has dismissed three Bosnian Serb police officers who were linked to atrocities against non-Serbs in the town of Foca during the Bosnian war, the UN announced today.
The Presidents of the United Nations war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia today outlined to the Security Council ways of speeding up the trials of high-ranking war criminals.
Briefing the United Nations Security Council on the recent vote in Kosovo, a top UN official today said the peacekeeping mission in the territory was satisfied with the entire polling process - "from the violence-free campaign to the all-inclusive elections."
The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has confirmed an indictment against Slobodan Milosevic charging him with genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the early 1990s.
The head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Hans Haekkerup, plans to announce on Saturday the official results of last week's legislative assembly elections, according to an UNMIK spokeswoman.
A former Bosnian Croat military police commander charged with murder and other crimes against humanity turned himself in today to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and was transferred to the court's detention unit in The Hague.
Partial results of last weekend's elections to the legislative assembly in Kosovo showed the political party led by Ibrahim Rugova to be in the lead but without a sufficient majority to form a government, according to the United Nations Interim Administration Mission (UNMIK) in the province.
Actions to protect women's rights and meet their specific needs should become a standard part of any international response to wars, according to a recent expert meeting in Bratislava organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
