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Supporting the Government of Lebanon's ongoing efforts to rid the country of deadly landmines, the United Nations peacekeeping mission there today announced that it would transform its Tyre Logistics Base into a coordinating centre for the anti-mine campaign.

The United Nations Security Council committee charged with monitoring the sanctions against Iraq has recommended a series of measures to prevent the illegal smuggling of Iraqi oil, according to a document released today at UN Headquarters in New York.

Security Council members today encouraged the President of Guinea-Bissau, Kumba Yala, in his efforts to pursue a policy of national reconciliation and dialogue in the West African country.

In a major step towards strengthening Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s expanding “Global Compact” initiative – which promotes action in support of nine internationally accepted principles on human rights, labour rights, and the environment – a group of business executives, international labour leaders, and heads of civil society organizations from across the world met at United Nations Headquarters today for the first session of the Compact’s Advisory Council.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will hold a hearing tomorrow for former President Slobodan Milosevic to consider his trial on charges stemming from the 1999 Kosovo conflict.

A United Nations planning team has begun a series of meetings in Sierra Leone on practical arrangements for the establishment and operation of a special court to try persons accused of war crimes.

The Executive Director of the United Nations Iraq Programme, Benon Sevan, will travel to the country in mid-January to hold meetings in Baghdad, a UN spokesman announced today.

The planned improvements in the landmark United Nations complex on Manhattan's East Side will be high on the agenda of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's meeting today with the Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.

With an estimated 50 million people around the world having lost their homes due to war and natural disasters, the United Nations has set up a new unit to respond to the severe crisis of internally displaced persons.

As the Kosovo Assembly prepares for its third meeting later this week, a senior United Nations official in the province today urged all political forces there to pursue the democratic process.