Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed of a senior military officer from Poland as the Force Commander of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM).
Improved security has enabled the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to visit a camp for Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia that was rocked by violent ethnic clashes last November.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to reconsider its decision to withdraw from a global nuclear weapons treaty and urged Pyongyang to engage in dialogue with the international community.
Following the announcement by the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said he regretted the move and strongly urged Pyongyang to reconsider its decision.
With the humanitarian situation rapidly deteriorating in Côte d'Ivoire, top United Nations officials will head to Paris next week for a talks aimed at ending the ongoing conflict.
The United Nations today said aid agencies do not have enough relief supplies to assist the growing number of people in need and lack the resources to help newly displaced persons as fighting continues in the Pool region of the Republic of the Congo.
The United Nations humanitarian envoy for the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire today said that a major focus of her upcoming mission to the country would be to negotiate humanitarian access to vulnerable populations.
The joint security team supervising disarmament efforts in northern Afghanistan has collected some 39 predominantly light weapons from six villages in that part of the country, the United Nations mission reported today.