Despite some practical cooperation between the two sides in the Abkhaz separatist conflict in northwestern Georgia, there has been no substantive dialogue on key issues and human rights in the area remain in peril, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in his latest report on the UN peacekeeping mission there.
The United Nations is rushing relief funds to Tajikistan, where massive floods and landslides have polluted the water supply in the capital, Dushanbe, leaving an estimated 40,000 people without clean water and susceptible to disease.
Seeking to better address the plight of 50 million people around the world uprooted from their homes by war and other emergencies, the United Nations has created a new office to "fill in the gaps" that previous efforts failed to tackle, its director said today.
Charging that Serbia and Montenegro is still failing to cooperate with the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia despite the public claims of its political leaders, the court's chief Prosecutor today demanded the country either arrest a recently indicted Croatian Serb leader or face disciplinary action from the Security Council.
The World Tourism Organization’s Executive Council, at its first session governing the new United Nations specialized agency, made plans to commemorate the International Year of Sport in 2005, assess the influences affecting international travel and update its related forecasts for 2010 and beyond.
United Nations international staff have still not returned to the Russian Federation republic of Ingushetia, almost a month after a night of deadly fighting there, because local authorities say they do not have enough armed guards to guarantee their safety.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced today that it has adjourned the genocide trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic again – this time by more than a month – because of his high blood pressure.
The reconstructed Old Bridge of Mostar, which for centuries was among the most famous sites in the Balkans before being destroyed in the 1990s when war engulfed the former Yugoslavia, will be inaugurated next week as a symbol of reconciliation and human solidarity, rebuilt thanks to the efforts of the United Nations.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has indicted a former Croatian Serb political leader active in the early 1990s for his alleged role in an ethnic cleansing campaign in the region.
Wrapping up his three-week-long trip to the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met today in Baden, Austria, with his blue-ribbon panel on new global security threats and reform of the international system.
