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The National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia has released the official and final results of the elections held earlier this month, announcing that a run-off will be necessary between the two leading presidential candidates – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and George Weah – the United Nations Mission in the country (UNMIL) said today.

With the Security Council having endorsed an African Union proposal for the appointment of a powerful new prime minister in Côte d'Ivoire by next Monday, the senior United Nations envoy to the country has said that President Laurent Gbagbo has agreed with the text.

States seeking diplomatic assurances from countries where they are seeking to deport individuals are undermining international human rights law, a United Nations independent expert said today in New York.

The growing threat of HIV/AIDS in the Pacific will need comprehensive, concerted responses from governments, or risk a serious HIV epidemic, a United Nations expert on AIDS told a gathering of experts in New Zealand.

Collaborating with its partners, the United Nations is working in an environment where more landmines come out of the ground than are planted each year, a senior peacekeeping official told the General Assembly's Special Political and Decolonization Committee today.

Blocked roads, snow and a serious lack of funding could create a death trap for tens of thousands of people who survived this month’s devastating earthquake in Pakistan, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today in the latest gloomy projection on the disaster.

With one child dying of AIDS and another becoming infected with HIV every minute, the United Nations and its partners today launched a global campaign to support the millions of children affected by HIV/AIDS and eradicate the “disgrace” that sees fewer than five per cent of HIV-positive youngsters receiving treatment.

The degree of political polarization in Iraq shown by the results of the constitutional referendum announced today underscores the importance of an inclusive national dialogue and of all communities participating in December's general elections, the top United Nations envoy in the country said.

The situation in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region is once again deteriorating sharply, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said, warning of a possible imminent calamity which might have “a devastating impact” on neighbouring countries and on other parts of Sudan.

The head of the United Nations commission which found evidence pointing at both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told the Security Council today the team had received threats and the already high risks it faced would increase further as it completes its work.