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The head of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) met today with rebel leaders to discuss the deployment of UN troops to a part of the country under their control.

At a solemn meeting commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian people, United Nations officials today renewed their call for peace talks in the troubled Middle East region.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, joined leaders of two European intergovernmental bodies in warning governments that measures to eradicate terrorism must not lead to excessive curbs on human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Despite pledges to cover a substantial part of the $76.9 million needed to help Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the United Nations relief programme in the area has received only about one fourth of the amount needed, according to a UN document released today.

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme today announced plans to intensify relief efforts for Afghanistan by setting up a force of experts ready to be deployed on short notice.

A new United Nations report released today says the number of HIV infections in Eastern Europe is rising faster than anywhere else in the world.

Talks among four Afghan factions in Bonn “are off to a good start,” according to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who addressed reporters in Washington, D.C., today following his meeting with President George Bush.

The Security Council committee monitoring United Nations sanctions against Afghanistan has published a new comprehensive list of individuals and groups connected with the Taliban or the Al-Qaida terrorist organization.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today held talks in Washington, D.C., with President George Bush on a range of pressing issues and regional hotspots, including Afghanistan.

The Constituent Assembly of East Timor today approved a motion recommending that the territory’s first presidential election be held in early April 2002, and affirmed that the formal transfer of powers and sovereignty from the United Nations to democratically elected East Timorese institutions would take place a month later, on 20 May.