The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today warned of further population displacement in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia unless significant progress was urgently made in implementing the 13 August peace agreement.
Three Bosnian Serbs were sentenced to between three and 15 years by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today for crimes against humanity committed at a detention camp in 1992.
Prosecutors for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today confirmed that they had filed a new indictment against former President Slobodan Milosevic charging him with genocide and other crimes allegedly committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Twin brothers were transferred today to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for acts committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mid-1990s.
Applauding the role played by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in advance of the election in Kosovo, the Security Council this morning called upon all women and men of the province to take part in the vote on 17 November.
The head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has signed an agreement with the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the provision of security and other guarantees for the Serb minority in Kosovo ahead of elections in the predominantly ethnic Albanian province.
United Nations experts have found depleted uranium (DU) contamination in four of the six sites in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia targeted during the 1999 Kosovo conflict by ordnance containing the substance, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) agency said today.
The Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Cyprus told journalists at the island's Larnaca airport today that he had come to the region to hold consultations in furtherance of the Secretary-General's good offices mission.
Five Bosnian Serbs were convicted today by a United Nations war crimes tribunal for their roles in what the court described as a "hellish orgy of persecution" in three detention camps.
