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With world economic growth depending too much on one country, the international community must help developing countries adopt measures that improve their abilities to play greater roles in world trade and to absorb new technologies, a senior United Nations official said today.

Responding to a spate of attacks on relief personnel in Afghanistan, the United Nations refugee agency today condemned the trend while vowing to continue its work on behalf of the country's beleaguered people.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly deplored the Israeli air strike on Syrian territory, warning that it could inflame violence in the troubled region.

Meeting in response to the latest developments in the Middle East, speakers in the Security Council today denounced Israel's attacks on Syrian territory, which were widely viewed as a grave escalation of violence in an already volatile region.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned the suicide bombing which killed at least 18 people in Haifa, Israel.

The United Nations refugee agency has launched an urgent appeal for $16.6 million to avert a humanitarian disaster on the Chad-Sudan border, where more than 65,000 Sudanese refugees, mainly women and children fleeing fighting in Africa’s largest country, have been living in desperate conditions for months.

The United Nations Security Council today turned its attention to Sudan, studying an agreement reached last week between rebels in the south and authorities in Khartoum, aimed at settling the two-decade old conflict.

United Nations Security Council members today called on all parties in Côte d'Ivoire, particularly the rebel Forces Nouvelles, to adhere to peace agreements reached earlier this year to bring about national reconciliation.

The first few dozen Sri Lankan child soldiers released by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been placed in a transit centre that was formally opened today by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in the first stage of a new programme to prepare them for civilian life and reunite them with their families.

The United Nations refugee agency today said that it had resumed activities in Liberia, two days after a gun battle in the capital, Monrovia, killed three people and left the city highly tense.