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Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the broad political agreements reached in Bonn by the 180 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the operational rulebook for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which sets legally binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

A United Nations conference has reached a landmark agreement in the worldwide fight against illegal gun trafficking, despite failing to gain consensus on controls over private ownership and weapons transfers.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for a six-month period, through January 2002, while calling on all parties in the region to respect the line of Israeli withdrawal, known as the Blue Line.

With the peace process between the parties to the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, in jeopardy, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended that the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) be extended for a further period of six months, through next January.

Deteriorating economic conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory have generated diminishing support for the peace process there, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns in a new report, urging greater international assistance to bolster United Nations relief efforts in the area.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed hope that the political process in Indonesia would remain peaceful after President Abdurrahman Wahid was removed from office and his Vice President, Megawati Sukarnoputri, sworn-in as the country's next leader.

The Burundi peace process appears to have advanced another step today in Arusha, Tanzania, where governments wrapped up a regional initiative summit on the war-torn central African country, a United Nations spokesman said today.

The United Nations General Assembly today released the provisional agenda for its 2001-02 session, which is set to begin on 11 September at UN Headquarters in New York.

Russian pilots and aircrews have received United Nations medals over the weekend for their service with the peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone.

Three major new initiatives launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Somalia last week will go a "long way" in helping Somali communities rebuild their economy, their society, and their livelihoods, the UN agency said in a statement issued today in New York.