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The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) will commence trials on Monday of three former members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) charged with major crimes in connection with the country's 1991-2002 civil war.

The Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koïchiro Matsuura, is in Afghanistan today, where he has held talks with Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative Jean Arnault as well as with Government officials.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today a specific date for elections would have to be set very soon if they are to take place in September as scheduled.

Louise Arbour, a Canadian Supreme Court Justice and ex-prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, today takes up her duties as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in succession to Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Baghdad last August.