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In the lead-up to a landmark United Nations summit on children, the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) today called on world leaders to commit to a global plan of action to solve malnutrition and illiteracy among the 300 million chronically hungry youngsters.

A United Nations team of experts is working in Jenin to defuse mines and other potentially explosive ordnance, according to the lead UN relief agency in the Middle East.

Continuing its eight-nation mission to the Great Lakes region of Africa, a delegation of the United Nations Security Council met today with President Eduardo dos Santos of Angola.

Two Serb men accused of committing war crimes during the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts in the 1990s were transferred today from Serbia to the detention unit of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced plans to travel to Cyprus and meet with the two leaders - a move that was immediately hailed by the UN Security Council.

After meeting behind closed doors for a briefing on the peace process between Eritrea and Ethiopia, members of the United Nations Security Council today said the two sides should work together with the UN in carrying out a recent decision about the border between them.

The need to protect world press freedom in the context of the global fight against terrorism was the subject of a probing exchange of views this morning, as high-level United Nations officials and senior representatives of world media met in New York to observe World Press Freedom Day.

The United Nations is set to renew its commitment to the world's children and adolescents next week as the General Assembly dedicates a landmark three-day special session to explore long-standing obstacles to young people's well-being and development, UN officials said today.

One day after informing the United Nations Security Council of his intention to disband a UN fact-finding mission to the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the Council could ask him to prepare a report on the matter even in the absence of a trip to the area.

The United Nations Committee on Information this afternoon concluded its current twenty-fourth session, as it approved a broad-ranging draft resolution that condemns attacks against journalists and urges all concerned to ensure reporters' ability to freely and effectively perform their work.