Alvaro de Soto, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Adviser on Cyprus - who is present during the ongoing talks in Nicosia - has expressed optimism regarding their potential for success, while cautioning that much work lies ahead.
Following his voluntary surrender, Dusan Fustar, a Bosnian Serb who has been indicted for war crimes, was transferred today to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) through 31 July, while urging the parties to the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, to engage in talks on a new negotiating document.
United Nations police have arrested three men for smuggling weapons and explosives into Kosovo from Albania, the UN mission in the province reported today.
Long-term stability in the Balkans is directly linked to the fate of an estimated one million people who remain uprooted as a result of the region's wars, according to the United Nations top refugee official.
On the final day of his official visit to Austria, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with some 3,000 United Nations staff members in Vienna, calling for renewed effort to improve the efficiency of the world body.
The United Nations police in Kosovo, supported by the KFOR security force, have arrested two men suspected of committing war crimes against the civilian population, UNMIK, the UN mission in the province, reported today.
The appeals court of the United Nations war crimes tribunal today ordered a hearing next week on an appeal by the prosecution of a decision to hold separate trials for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for alleged crimes committed in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Kosovo.
Two Bosnian Serbs, charged with the genocide of hundreds of Croats and Muslims and the forcible relocation of thousands more in 1992, went on trial before the United Nations war crimes tribunal today in The Hague.
