Offering an initial assessment of the declaration by Iraq on its weapons programme, lead United Nations weapons inspectors told the Security Council today that the text leaves many questions unanswered.
After hearing an initial assessment by United Nations experts on Iraq’s declaration of its weapons programme, members of the Security Council today decided to hold further meetings on the issue, the President of the 15-nation body said.
Continuing an intensified pace of work, United Nations inspectors in Iraq today continued to probe sites suspected of being involved in the country's efforts to procure long-range missiles as well as chemical, biological and nuclear arms.
Up to 2.4 million Angolans will need immediate food aid prior to the next harvest in April and May 2003, nearly double the number previously estimated, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.
Marking International Migrants Day, United Nations officials today called attention to the abuses suffered by millions of people who have left their home countries, and urged greater international efforts to protect them.
The Security Council today stressed the importance of full cooperation by all countries with the work of the United Nations war crimes tribunals dealing with the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
The United Nations Security Council today welcomed the signing of the ceasefire agreement early this month between the Government of Burundi and a rebel group, and asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan to "study ways of responding positively and with urgency to the requests of the Burundian parties."
The top United Nations human rights official today pledged his Office's readiness to help countries with legislation that would enable judges to carry out national prosecutions under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today said that it was shipping fishing gear to the suffering population in southern Sudan, the first time in years that aid agencies have been able to gain access to that part of the war-torn country.