United Nations nuclear and chemical experts today joined forces to inspect a facility in Iraq suspected of involvement in the country's prohibited weapons programme.
Travelling by air and over land, United Nations arms inspectors today continued to fan out across Iraq probing the country's suspected covert weapons programme.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has sent a letter informing the Security Council of its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the President of the 15-nation body said today.
United Nations human rights experts today condemned the assassinations of two prominent Guatemalan indigenous leaders, whose bodies were discovered late last month.
United Nations treaty-monitoring bodies on women's anti-discrimination and the protection of children's rights are set to open their first substantive sessions of the new year next week.
Following earlier news that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) killed one Syrian and reportedly captured another in the northern Golan Heights, United Nations military observers in the region confirmed today that they were able to get to the site of the incident and recover the body of the deceased man.
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator today welcomed the release of the head of a Russian non-governmental organization who had been abducted last July while working in Chechnya.
United Nations and Cambodian officials met again today as part of the ongoing exploratory talks on the establishment of a special court to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity.
Members of the United Nations Security Council today voiced concern that the Government of Sierra Leone has not yet fully re-established control in parts of the country, including the diamond-producing areas, and urged authorities in Freetown to make rapid progress with this, including by adopting a policy for the diamond sector.
A senior law enforcement official from India has been appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the next United Nations Civilian Police Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the first woman to hold the job.