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United Nations weapons inspectors returned to the Ukhaider Ammunition Storage Area today to conduct further analysis of the twelfth chemical warhead found at the site earlier in the week.

Members of the United Nations Security Council today urged the Government of Liberia and a rebel group to end their current conflict and to work towards holding peaceful elections.

The 100 best typeface designs used in global written communication over the past five years are on display at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the winners of a global competition organized as part of the UN Year of Dialogue among Civilizations in 2001.

United Nations inspectors today continued their probe for evidence of illegal weapons in Iraq, visiting an ice-making factory and a defunct chlorine plant outside of Baghdad.

Following an invitation from the Iraqi Government, a United Nations envoy is arriving in Baghdad today for two days of talks with authorities on the return of missing persons and seized Kuwaiti property.

Signalling what may be a major push to streamline humanitarian aid delivery schemes worldwide, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today took over from the UN's refugee agency responsibility for providing food to Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

The Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Glafcos Clerides, met today in the presence of the Secretary-General's Special Adviser for Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, in the United Nations Protected Area in Nicosia.

As fighting in the western part of Côte d'Ivoire and recent ceasefire violations in the north persist, sending thousands of Ivorians fleeing to neighbouring countries, the United Nations humanitarian envoy for the crisis in the country today urged the government to provide relief to those in need wherever the may be.

Negotiations on the future status of Abkhazia, Georgia have made little progress in the last year, Secretary General Kofi Annan says in a new report, recommending the continued presence of the United Nations Observer Mission in that country (UNOMIG) for another six months.

Stressing the obligation of all States to work together urgently to prevent and suppress terrorist acts, the United Nations Security Council moved unanimously today to improve implementation of the sanctions regime imposed on Usama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, the Taliban and their associates.