Latest News

After finding a consistent pattern of breaches of the arms embargo against Somalia, a United Nations expert panel has recommended that the Security Council send a clear signal that all future violators will be sanctioned.

To support United Nations drug control efforts in one of Myanmar's main opium producing regions, the Government of Japan will provide $1.2 million towards a project expected to contribute to increasing the food security of opium farmers, improving their living standard, and eventually eradicating opium poppy cultivation.

Making a plea for multilateral cooperation, a senior United Nations official today called for full membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by Asian and Pacific states that had yet to join.

The senior United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process, Terje Roed-Larsen, has strongly condemned the suicide bombing over the weekend in the Israeli town of Netanya, calling it an “outrageous and cowardly act.”

The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today sentenced two Bosnian Croats to 18 and 20 years in jail for crimes against humanity against Muslims, including prisoners, during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995.

United Nations relief agencies along Iraq's borders are looking at ways to bring in humanitarian aid, and the first UN food consignment to enter the country since the outbreak of hostilities has already crossed over from Turkey into northern Iraq.

The United Nations today said the humanitarian situation in Côte d'Ivoire continues to deteriorate, with spiralling violence in the west, rebel activities stifling the economy in the north and ever more people forced from their homes in the south.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with Arab countries to brief them and to hear their views about the situation in Iraq before starting a series of meetings this week with the regional groupings of UN Member States.

The United Nations Commission on Population and Development opened a week-long meeting at UN Headquarters in New York today with speakers stressing the vital role of education in confronting problems related to runaway population growth and lagging development.

The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has denounced as "incomprehensible and unjustifiable " a rebel group's provocative assault on and recapture of two small eastern towns from a rival faction within hours of signing an agreement on the country's future military structure.