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The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today hailed the signing of an accord outlining a future course towards peace in Somalia, and urged the warring factions there to lay down their arms.

Kosovo’s Serbs “shot themselves in the foot” with their low turnout in last week’s municipal elections, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative to the province said today in Belgrade.

The United Nations Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against Iraq has confirmed a list of relief items which can be approved for distribution in the country on an accelerated basis.

With sporadic fighting continuing across parts of Afghanistan, instability remains a priority concern in the country, Lakhdar Brahimi, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, told the Security Council today.

A panel of experts reporting to the United Nations Security Council has documented new violations of the arms embargo against Liberia, including the delivery of six cargo aircraft containing some 200 tons of weapons and ammunition supplies, according to a report released today at the UN.

Worldwide, life expectancy can be increased by 5 to10 years if governments and individuals make combined efforts against the prevailing major health risks, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) says in its latest annual report, issued today.

With up to one quarter of the world’s estimated 300,000 child soldiers serving in the East Asia and Pacific region, the Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today in Bangkok called for new and concerted efforts to demobilize and assist young conscripts.

Dr. Ashok Khosla, widely viewed as one of the world’s great environmental thinkers and innovators, has won this year’s United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sasakawa Environment Prize, the agency announced today.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the approval of a new $66-million relief operation to assist hundreds of thousands of Central Americans hard-hit by recent droughts and crop failures.

Global efforts to combat climate change are shifting towards realizing existing international goals, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a message to a key gathering in New Delhi on the leading treaty designed to address the weather phenomenon.