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Members of the United Nations Security Council have called on Israel to cooperate with a fact-finding team – initiated by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and welcomed by the Council last week – which is set to travel to the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank to develop accurate information regarding recent events there.

While the formation of a government in Kosovo earlier this year after several months of deadlock was an important step forward, much more needs to be done to create a secure climate in order to spur economic development, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report on the United Nations efforts in the province.

Following Secretary-General Kofi Annan's meeting with the Israeli Ambassador late on Tuesday, senior UN and Israeli officials will meet in New York tomorrow to discuss a UN fact-finding mission on recent events in the Jenin refugee camp, a spokesman for Mr. Annan announced today.

A United Nations fact-finding mission initiated by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and welcomed by the Security Council to develop accurate information regarding recent events in the Jenin refugee camp is expected to be in the Middle East by Saturday, a spokesman travelling with the team announced today in Geneva.

Responding to the second flash flood to hit northern Afghanistan over the past two weeks, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that it had sent 9 tons of food aid to some 2,000 people affected by the disaster.

The United Nations Security Council today welcomed advances in Kosovo's political structures while stressing the need to further facilitate the return of all displaced persons to the territory.

The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called for urgent attention to the plight of 54 million hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, today released a report on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory that was based on information from concerned organizations in the region since her visiting mission had not been given clearance to travel to the area.

An emerging spirit of democratic empowerment in Africa deserves international support, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a speech to Harvard University in Boston, United States.

Police officials from East Timor, Australia and Indonesia today held their first-ever trilateral talks to discuss a wide range of regional security issues ahead of the territory's independence next month, the United Nations Transitional Administration (UNTAET) said today.