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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appealed to the Israelis and the Palestinians to fulfil their obligations under international law and the Road Map, a widely endorsed plan for peace in the Middle East.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the signing of a coalition agreement by Cambodia's two main political parties that paves the way for the formation of a new government.

Teams of investigators from the United Nations and the Russian Federation are on their way to Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, to open an official investigation of yesterday’s helicopter crash that apparently killed two dozen UN workers, a spokesman for the world body said today.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today approved new grants totalling $2.9 billion, drawing immediate praise from the United Nations.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks today with Sudanese Government ministers and United States Secretary of State Colin Powell about the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region as he began a three-day fact-finding visit to Africa's largest country.

One of the world's fastest glaciers and a rainforest with thousands of plant species are among the natural sites designated for conservation, while a royal mud pyramid in sub-Saharan Africa and a European fortification in North Africa have joined the listed world's cultural heritage in architecture, the United Nations said today.

The United Nations and the Government of Côte d'Ivoire have signed an agreement on the world body's work in the West African country, the UN peacekeeping operation there (ONUCI) announced today.

West Africa is full of potential, but the fragility of its states has brought on a cycle in which there is no sustainable development without security, and little security or stability without development, British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said today as he reported on a Security Council fact-finding trip to seven countries in the region.

The United Nations today inaugurated a new library at its African headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, named in honour of former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was murdered in a terrorist attack last year while serving as Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative in Iraq.

With about 75 percent of the world's poor - some 1.2 billion people - living in rural areas, growing trees on farms can help alleviate poverty by providing income and food as well as restore degraded land, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.