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The United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) today is mourning the death of a senior official who died of a serious respiratory disease, which has killed nearly 90 people around the world, while on mission in China.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report released today that his plan to enable a united Cyprus to join the European Union remains on the table but that he will not undertake any new initiatives to reach a deal until he sees that the political will necessary for a successful outcome exists.

Painting a grim picture of hardship and horror, United Nations relief agencies today underscored the massive humanitarian tasks awaiting them in war-shattered Iraq.

A team from the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has visited the volatile northeastern part of the country to investigate reports of massacres that may have left as many as 1,000 people dead, according to a UN spokesman in New York.

As conflicts continue to sweep Liberia, United Nations agencies and their humanitarian partners - already struggling to assist countless people forced almost daily from their homes - now report that access to desperate civilian populations is severely diminished throughout the country.

Although the text of a draft agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Cambodia on a special court to try former Khmer Rouge leaders is a "considerable improvement" over previous documents, doubts might still remain as to whether it would ensure the credibility of the tribunal given the precarious state of that country's judiciary, the Secretary-General says in a report released today.

With international attention focused on the humanitarian situation arising from the conflict in Iraq, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urged the Security Council not to forget the 40 million Africans in greater peril of starvation.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has invited members of the Security Council to meet with him on Iraq on Monday morning, a spokesman for the world body announced today.

With India the number one priority area for polio eradication, the United Nations lead health agency today launched a massive immunization campaign to vaccinate more than 80 million children in the epicentre of the epidemic.

At a time when most challenges extend well beyond national borders, dynamic partnerships between parliamentarians and international institutions are essential to building a safer and more secure world, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message to a gathering of international lawmakers meeting in Santiago, Chile.