The United Nations peacekeeping operations in East Timor and Sierra Leone have set up special HIV/AIDS units to raise awareness about how to prevent and treat the deadly virus.
The top United Nations official in Kosovo today expressed shock at learning of the murder of Ismet Raci, President of the Klina Municipality and a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).
Noting a lack of progress towards a political settlement of the Prevlaka dispute between Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, members of the United Nations Security Council today encouraged the parties to move forward speedily on the confidence-building measures conveyed informally to them by the UN in 1999.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reported that there has been no progress in the implementation of the United Nations Settlement Plan for Western Sahara, but recommended that the UN mission in the country be extended for two months to allow the parties to explore a possible solution.
The continued lack of progress on key issues concerning a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, was unacceptable, the Security Council said this afternoon.
For the world economy to regain its momentum this year, the major economies will have to be "firing on all engines and at the same time," the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said today as it released a major new study on global economic prospects.
Continuing his diplomatic efforts in response to recent violence in the Middle East, a top United Nations envoy held high-level meetings today in Syria.
Tanzanian refugees who fled to Kenya from the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar have told the United Nations refugee agency that they would be ready to return home if talks between the Government and the opposition lead to a joint declaration that would ease tensions on the islands, agency officials said today.
Iraq has earned an additional €370 million (euros) under the United Nations oil-for-food programme, according to new statistics released today by the office overseeing the scheme, which allows Baghdad to export its petroleum and use a portion of the profits for humanitarian relief.
China's ratification of the Bangkok Agreement has made one of Asia's oldest trade accords the world's largest in terms of market potential, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) announced today.