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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he would closely study the findings of an international commission linked to the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the former United Nations chief killed in a 1961 plane crash.

United Nations senior officials highlighted the role of literacy in achieving a more sustainable future, stressing that knowledge can help combat poverty and improve people's livelihoods.

The top United Nations envoy in Somalia today deplored a terrorist attack in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which resulted in numerous casualties.

A top United Nations official focusing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has stressed the need to address impunity in the country, which has seen massive displacement over the past year along with pervasive violence and rights abuses.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged leaders at the Group of 20 (G20) summit in St. Petersburg to explore ways to avoid further militarization of the conflict in Syria and to revitalize the search for a political settlement, warning that “tragic consequences” could follow military action.

The Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States today stressed that he and other senior diplomats were working “extremely hard” bring Syrian an other concerned parties together for a conference to find a political path out of the crisis in the country.

United Nations agencies today expressed alarm at the increasing rate of human rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR), following reports of burned and abandoned villages, massive displacement, as well as looting and torture.

Mali’s new leadership is forming a new Government today, a process started with the swearing in of the new President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, an event noted by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country.

The United Nations humanitarian chief today reiterated the Organization’s commitment to continue its relief operations inside Syria, as well as in neighbouring countries, adding that protecting civilians is paramount amid the spiralling violence.

A senior United Nations expert is calling on the Government of Cambodia to pay its national staff and help end a strike at the UN-backed tribunal trying Khmer Rouge leaders accused of mass killings and other crimes in the south-east Asian country.