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Drawing attention to the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan as a democratic and well-governed country, the United Nations main anti-drug agency today said such measures provided an opportunity to make "significant progress" in substantially reducing the supply of opiates in the narcotics market.

Nane Annan, the wife of the United Nations Secretary-General, today paid tribute to Rotary International for its "outstanding volunteer efforts in the service of humanity," in an address to the organization's annual convention in Barcelona.

Aiming to help close the AIDS treatment gap in the developing world, a new United Nations-backed report was released today to help poor countries track HIV medicines, testing kits and suppliers.

As the genocide trial of Slobodan Milosevic remains delayed by his recent illness, judges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal today ordered the former Yugoslav President to undergo a medical examination.

Efforts by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to strengthen policing in the province, including the recent arrests of suspects in cases pending from 1999, showed that "no one is above the law," a senior UN official told the Security Council today.

The global economy is likely to see a slow recovery following last year's sharp downturn, with growth uneven in different countries across the world, according to a new report released today at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

An economic advisory body to the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) has begun debate on unregulated gambling activities in the province.

More than 28 million Africans are living with HIV, and in some countries at least 30 per cent of the adult population is infected by the deadly virus, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said today as it released data about the unprecedented destruction the disease is causing to African societies and economies.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today mourned the deaths of more than 200 people who were killed in a passenger train accident on Monday in Tanzania.

Stressing the human dimension of the Chernobyl disaster and the continued suffering of its victims 16 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged countries to recommit themselves to an active role in the relief effort.