Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy to Myanmar met today with that nation's detained democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a United Nations spokesman confirmed.
With the donning of the blue berets of peace, an exchange of flags and the playing of anthems under the searing Liberian sun, the United Nations embarked today on a major mission to bring stability and democracy to the West African country, torn asunder by nearly 15 years of civil war, brutality, rape, looting and corruption.
The head of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) said today that the pacification of that country was going well - "probably better than could have been reasonably expected."
The number of urban slum dwellers worldwide could double to 2 billion in less than three decades, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) said today.
The United Nations General Assembly continued its high-level debate well into the second week today, with world leaders calling for the expansion of notions of national security beyond political and military issues to include transnational crime, economic debility and pandemics of communicable diseases.
United Nations interagency missions fanning out to some of the troubled areas of Liberia have reported that the security situation in many areas has "improved dramatically," according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).