Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he hoped United Nations weapons inspectors would eventually return to Iraq, noting that their work had merely been suspended.
The United Nations office overseeing the humanitarian Oil-for-Food programme today said it has identified over $1 billion worth of goods and supplies as potential priorities for delivery to Iraq over the next 45 days.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said he is "happy" that the diplomatic Quartet - comprising the United Nations, European Union, Russian Federation and United States - is determined to move ahead with a plan to resolve the Middle East crisis.
The United Nations lead health agency has expressed concern over cases of a mysterious respiratory disease in a Hong Kong residential complex, where the illness seems to be transmitted in a way not yet understood.
The United Nations, especially its human rights entities, owe it to the Iraqi people to help them in the healing process, tackle urgent humanitarian issues, and protect the supreme right to life in the face of war, the UN expert on the country's human rights situation said today.
United Nations agencies have joined forces with local authorities and rescue workers struggling to deliver humanitarian aid to victims of a devastating landslide that hit a small gold mining village in northern Bolivia yesterday.
Hundreds of people have been displaced by incursions into Venezuela by irregular armed groups from Colombia and reported armed clashes along the border between the two countries, the United Nations refugee agency said today as it appealed to all combatants to respect the rights of the civilian population.