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United Nations conference on the reconstruction of Afghanistan concluded today in New Delhi, India, with several developing nations pledging their available skills and assistance to meet the needs and priorities identified by Kabul authorities.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the signing in Moscow by the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation of a treaty on the reduction of deployed nuclear arms.

Members of the United Nations Security Council today called on all actors in Somalia to refrain from violence and to resolve their differences peacefully.

The illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is not only continuing but is being consolidated in many areas, resulting in a ruinous effect on the civilian population, according to a report released today at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Observing Africa Day, which marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan voiced their support for African leaders' efforts to tackle the continent's problems and stressed the need for international assistance in reaching that goal.

Meeting on the latest developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the killings that had taken place in Kisangani, and called for an immediate stop to all violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.

Reaffirming its earlier statements and decisions, the United Nations Security Council today said that the Kosovo Assembly had overstepped its authority when it passed a recent measure dealing with a border pact.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will pay his first-ever visit to Ukraine in early June, a UN spokesman announced today.

A United Nations envoy on human rights activists today announced plans to undertake a fact-finding mission to Guatemala next week.

Increasingly concerned by the "alarming" rise in tension between India and Pakistan, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the both sides to settle the Kashmir question and other outstanding issues without violence.