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Deploying a multifaceted United Nations peacekeeping force in Côte d'Ivoire for six months would cost about $303 million, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council in a letter made public today.

Nine countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus have agreed to use their mass media and civil society institutions to develop "a culture of intolerance" towards all forms of terrorism, the United Nations reported today.

Reacting to today's media reports alleging that Secretary-General Kofi Annan's conversations were tapped by British intelligence, a United Nations spokesman said if this practice exists it should stop.

Millions of children across Southern Africa are at risk because of a lack of international funds and support, eight United Nations agencies warned today as they launched a mid-term review of their financial appeal for the region.

The United Nations today mourned the death of President Boris Trajkovski of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan recalling the crucial role he played in preserving the unity of his country and laying down the basis for the stability of a multi-ethnic State.

The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, set up by the United Nations to peacefully resolve their border dispute, has nearly completed its field visits to the contested land boundary between the countries and the Bakassi Peninsula in the Gulf of Guinea.

United Nations peacekeeping forces investigating allegations that militia members were assembling in a village in an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with a view to attacking a nearby town came under fire from militiamen in an ambush, the UN mission, MONUC, said today.

Pledging his unwavering commitment to the peaceful resolution of the separatist conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia's new President Mikhail Saakashvili appealed to the United Nations Security Council today to enhance its efforts to advance lasting peace and stability in his country.

The United Nations refugee agency today urged Haiti's neighbours to open their borders to those forced to flee the worsening civil strife in the Caribbean country.

Given its long record of deploying peacekeeping missions, the United Nations has a special responsibility to send a multinational force to Haiti during a rapidly deteriorating political and security crisis, Jamaican Foreign Minister Keith D. Knight told the United Nations Security Council today.