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The new head of the United Nations mission in Kosovo today met with leaders of the province and underlined the importance of collaboration to combat inter-ethnic violence, pledging his intention to openly cooperate with all communities.

The United Nations Security Council today welcomed the relative calm in Burundi following a series of rebel attacks on the capital Bujumbura in early July, and called on all opposition groups to give up the armed struggle and to respect human rights.

The United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the deaths of two teenagers and injury to four others after unknown suspects opened fire on a group of Kosovo Serb youngsters, demanding that no efforts be spared to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Striving to halt the continuing plunder of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations Security Council today unanimously renewed the mandate of a special investigative panel and demanded that all States take immediate steps to end such illegal exploitation.

The peace process in Côte d'Ivoire has made encouraging progress in the past six months, but according to the first report on the new United Nations mission in the country, the road to true stability is long and fraught with contradictions that must be resolved in order for the new Government to fully implement its promising work plan.

With roughly half a million people in Monrovia still facing severe shortages of food and drinking water and with medical supplies dwindling, United Nations humanitarian agencies continue to scale up their operations in the crowded, war-ravaged Liberian capital.

The head of the United Nations mission in Kosovo today strongly condemned the killing of two teenagers and injury of four others by unknown suspects who opened fire on a group of Serb youngsters swimming in a river in the Pec region.

The top United Nations envoy in Iraq today held out the prospect of breaking the regional isolation of the Iraqi Governing Council following his discussions with officials in Cairo last weekend, with a possible meeting next week between the United States-appointed body and the 22-member Arab League secretariat starting a rapprochement.

Meeting with top government officials in Fiji, a United Nations envoy has stressed the need to create a platform for small island states to participate in an up-coming global development meeting and underscored the need for using such an opportunity to focus on gaining concrete and feasible commitments.

Speaking on a day when clashes and a bus bombing claimed dozens of lives in Afghanistan, the top United Nations envoy to that country told the Security Council today that thousands more international troops were needed to provide vital security if the political pacification process in the war-torn nation was to succeed.