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Reiterating his support for current high-level United States diplomatic moves in the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged continued international engagement in efforts to resolve the region's conflict.

The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today released a Bosnian Serb charged with multiple counts of crimes against humanity after the prosecution said it lacked evidence to go to trial.

Delegates meeting in Madrid at the United Nations Second World Assembly on Ageing have achieved "significant progress" on the final action plan and political declaration to be adopted at the conference's conclusion on Friday, a UN spokesman for the meeting said today.

The Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) have urged Ethiopia and Eritrea to implement the decisions of a Boundary Commission, which will shortly announce its ruling on the border delimitation between the two formerly warring neighbours.

Israel continues to block international relief workers from delivering aid to the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank despite assurances of cooperation, a United Nations spokesman said today.

A top United Nations envoy for Africa today met with a delegation from the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) for talks on the recent ceasefire agreement with the Government, including a discussion on the lifting of UN sanctions, which include a travel ban on the group's leaders.

Over 20 United Nations Volunteers from 10 countries have arrived in Comoros to help observe the run-up to Sunday's presidential elections and the final tabulation of the vote.

Warning of looming hunger in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called on the international community to step up donations for its emergency operation inthe country.

The international diplomatic "quartet" pursuing peace efforts in the Middle East - the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States - today urged Israel to halt immediately its military operations and called on Yasser Arafat, as "the recognized" leader of the Palestinian people, to do everything possible to stop terror attacks.

In an unprecedented move, the heads of United Nations relief agencies and other major international humanitarian organizations today jointly condemned Israel's military actions in the occupied Palestinian territory, saying the consequences of such tactics were worsening the humanitarian crisis to unmatched proportions.