After a nearly four-year interruption, United Nations arms inspectors resumed their probe into Iraq's weapons programme today, visiting three sites outside Baghdad.
With the situation in Afghanistan still constituting a threat to global peace and security, the United Nations Security Council today authorized the extension of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the country until 20 December 2003.
A panel established by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to deal with the dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria over the Bakassi peninsula will hold its first meeting on Sunday, a UN spokesman announced today.
External assistance will be crucial to helping Burundi meet its emergency and administrative needs during the country’s political transition, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message today to a donors’ conference in Geneva.
The head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today called for a "stringent and demanding" liability system to encourage ship owners and masters to comply with higher standards and regulations in response to the break-up and sinking last week of an oil tanker off the coast of Spain.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has contacted the Greek Cypriot leader, Glafcos Clerides, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, seeking their reactions to his plan on Cyprus.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is fuelling a deadly famine in southern Africa with more than 14 million people at risk of starvation in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, according to a new United Nations report, AIDS Epidemic Update 2002, released today in London.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has protested to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) the treatment of one of the Agency's international staff members and her family, who were subject to degrading searches and unjustified detention.
Some 100 governments meeting in Rome this week are set to agree on a major funding package that will channel hundreds of millions of dollars towards helping poorer nations reduce their reliance on ozone-depleting chemicals over the next three years, the United Nations said today.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, today headed to Colombia in a bid to raise international awareness about the plight of the over 2 million people who have been displaced by the country’s long-running conflict.