Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed four experts to the United Nations Security Council body monitoring the sanctions against the Angolan rebel group UNITA.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Personal Representative for Southern Lebanon will assess the needs of the local administration in the area during an upcoming trip there, the United Nations announced today.
The head of the United Nations agency assisting millions of Palestine refugees today urged a General Assembly committee to provide a sound financial basis for the relief effort.
Hundreds of East Timorese have returned from West Timor refugee camps as the United Nations Transitional Administration (UNTAET) continued its ongoing efforts to encourage their repatriation.
Former President Slobodan Milosevic today made his first appearance before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges he was responsible for crimes committed in Croatia.
Officials from various business and labour interests are among the scores of participants gathered at a conference which opened today in London on Secretary-General's Global Compact initiative.
A team of experts from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is visiting the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia this week to investigate sites in Serbia and Montenegro that were targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium (DU) during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.
More than 160 countries convened today in Marrakech, Morocco, to try to finalize procedures and institutions needed to make a United Nations treaty on climate change fully operational.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, held talks in Islamabad today with senior Pakistani officials as part of ongoing efforts to find a solution to the Afghan crisis.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today held talks in Islamabad on the possibility of opening new camps in Pakistan to accommodate the thousands of Afghans fleeing their country.