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Reacting to the fragile situation in Liberia, members of the United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan today denounced rebel attempts to seize power by force in the country, and urged States in the region to prevent belligerence.

Recent Israeli military operations in the West Bank have caused $361 million in damages, according to new figures released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the Government of Norway.

Recent violence in the Middle East threatens to overwhelm the Palestinian health care system, a senior United Nations official said today.

Delivering a lecture in the Norwegian capital, where an effort to bring peace to the Middle East began a decade ago, a top United Nations envoy said today that even though the “Oslo process” was at a standstill, its basic principles remained valid while an international consensus was building around new precepts and mechanisms that could lead to a sustainable accord between the two parties to the crisis.

The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) has announced that it will issue a set of stamps to mark East Timor’s independence next week.

Meeting at an event co-chaired by the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), governments and aid agencies today pledged over $360 million to support economic development in the soon-to-be independent nation over the next three years.

Two Serbs wanted for alleged war crimes in Croatia were transferred today from Serbia to the detention unit of the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

With the greying of world population accelerating, families hold the key to tackling the challenges posed by this demographic revolution, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message marking the International Day of Families, which is observed globally on 15 May.

The head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today called on a meeting of donor countries and multilateral agencies to support the economic development plan outlined by the soon-to-be independent territory's leaders.

With one-time colony East Timor set to join the community of sovereign States next week, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged countries meeting to examine decolonization issues to resolve the status of Non-Self-Governing Territories.