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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed Ambassador Joël W. Adechi of Benin his Deputy Special Representative (DSRSG) with the UN Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE), effective early June.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's representative for Iraq has met with France's Foreign Minister and other senior French officials for talks that focused on preparations for the ministerial meeting on Iraq to be held on 22 June in Brussels.

Marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, celebrated opera singer and UN Messenger of Peace Luciano Pavarotti will use two of his concerts this week to advocate supporting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), designed in 2000 to reduce or eliminate a host of socioe-conomic ills by 2015.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was expected to arrive today in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, ahead of a meeting to bolster international support for the African Union (AU) mission in Sudan's Darfur region.

The illegal exploitation of the world's forests is costing billions of dollars every year in lost revenue and causing enormous environmental and social damage, a senior United Nations official said today as he urged an international meeting of government ministers to strengthen their legislation to protect forests.

Members of the United Nations Security Council today welcomed an agreement by the Government and armed opposition in Côte d'Ivoire to undertake a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process (DDR), calling it major progress towards fulfilment of the Pretoria Agreement as mediated by South Africa.

Continuing the all-out effort to eradicate polio from Sudan, the country's Ministry of Health, backed by United Nations agencies and other organizations, today launched a three-day campaign to immunize all children under 5.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said today that it is sending a team to investigate attacks on civilians by a renegade Rwandan militia group, the most recent one having taken 18 lives Monday night.

Seeking to reap the benefits of sports for peacebuilding, socio-economic development and health, a consortium of athletes, United Nations officials, government leaders and sports federations met today at UN Headquarters in New York to adopt a policy declaration aimed at national governments around the world.

The court established by the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone to try cases of serious crimes committed during the West African country's bloody civil war was doing historic work but faced an imminent funding shortfall, the tribunal's President told the UN Security Council today.