Continuing his efforts to defuse the current crisis in the Middle East, a senior United Nations envoy to the region met with Israeli and Palestinian officials today in Tel Aviv.
Prosecutors at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today opened the trial of Slobodan Milosevic for crimes allegedly committed in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In talks with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today pledged that the UN system stands ready to help the country deal with its humanitarian crisis and human rights situation, a UN spokesman said in New York.
The United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) today congratulated the country’s two police academies for their work in promoting cooperation and tolerance since multi-ethnic law-enforcement training began in 1999.
As the parties in Angola convened to begin talks on the terms for implementing the peace plan, the United Nations envoy to the country today stressed patience, persistence and a commitment to national reconciliation.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan deplored the Government of Israel’s latest deadly military action today in Gaza City, in which a helicopter attacked a heavily populated civilian area, and urged the country to respect international humanitarian law.
The food crisis in southern Africa has accelerated at a much faster than anticipated pace, as the number of hungry people in the region has swelled by 1.6 million from earlier estimates, the United Nations envoy for the emergency said today.
The United Nations today announced the launch of a powerful Internet portal designed to promote on-line learning, dialogue and collaboration in the context of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Global Compact initiative, which seeks to advance good corporate citizenship and responsible globalization.
In its annual report to the General Assembly, the Security Council reviews a year of intensive work marked by stepped-up efforts to counter the global terrorist threat.
Continuing its bid to pinpoint the most promising sites for renewable energy in some of the world’s poorest countries, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced a new collaboration with one of the world’s leading “green energy” research centres.