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United Nations inspectors today found empty chemical warheads at a storage area in Iraq, according to a spokesman for the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) in Baghdad.

A United Nations panel in Geneva today paid out more than $597 million for claims resulting from losses and damage suffered as a direct result of Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait.

The United Nations humanitarian envoy for the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire arrived in Abidjan today with a mandate to focus international attention on the crisis unfolding in the country, and to ensure that all affected populations – including nearly 1 million internally displaced persons – receive the help they so desperately need.

The literacy, infant mortality and basic nutrition rates of most of the four to five million Roma in Europe are closer to levels in sub-Saharan Africa than those for other Europeans, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched today in Brussels.

With Venezuela handing over chairmanship of the Group of 77 developing countries today at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Secretary-General Kofi Annan took the occasion to meet with President Hugo Chávez to discuss several issues concerning the caucus and well as the situation in that country.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today encouraged the so-called "Group of 77" developing countries and China to pay greater attention to emerging issues that will profoundly affect efforts to meet the challenges of development and globalization, as the chairmanship of the 133-nation coalition was formally handed over from Venezuela to Morocco.

Effective implementation of the new development cooperation agenda will be the subject of an upcoming meeting in Ethiopia between African finance ministers and their counterparts from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa said today.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today made public the draft text that will be key to the final round of negotiations on a global treaty aimed at curbing the advertising, promotion, sales and smuggling of tobacco products.

As the chief United Nations inspectors prepare to visit Iraq this weekend, UN monitors on the ground continued to visit a variety of sites today, including agricultural facilities, a heavy machinery design plant and a missile propellant factory.

Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, is leaving today for a series of meetings with senior European officials before heading to Baghdad this weekend for further talks with Iraqi authorities about the country's compliance with the inspection process, a UN spokesman said Wednesday.