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The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) through 31 July, while urging the parties to the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, to engage in talks on a new negotiating document.

In a key move forward in the global fight against corruption, the United Nations General Assembly today set the parameters for negotiations on a new international treaty to deal with the scourge.

After two days of intensive debate on the situation in Africa, the United Nations Security Council today outlined a series of measures and recommendations aimed at preventing conflict and creating political, social and economic conditions essential for peace and sustainable development on the continent.

With just over 100 days remaining before East Timor's independence, the Security Council today held a day-long meeting to review preparations in the territory for nationhood, including work on a constitution and plans for a successor mission to the current United Nations Transitional Administration (UNTAET).

Seeking to express their solidarity with the women of Afghanistan, a United Nations committee will adopt a formal statement on the important role they should play in the country's reconstruction, the body's chairperson said today.

The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) has provided over $700,000 worth of support to the relief effort following the eruption of a volcano in the country earlier this month, the head of MONUC said today.

Long-term stability in the Balkans is directly linked to the fate of an estimated one million people who remain uprooted as a result of the region's wars, according to the United Nations top refugee official.

On the final day of his official visit to Austria, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with some 3,000 United Nations staff members in Vienna, calling for renewed effort to improve the efficiency of the world body.

Addressing an open meeting of the United Nations Security Council for the first time, the new interim leader of Afghanistan today called on the 15-member body to extend and expand the mandate of multinational forces in the country.

Extending a warm welcome to the new Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, the United Nations Security Council today voiced its “unqualified and unreserved support” to his quest for peace, justice and stability in Afghanistan and pledged to help in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.