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The Spanish Government is set to host a United Nations-organized donor conference on 24 October in Madrid to seek billions of dollars to finance Iraq's reconstruction, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) announced today.

The chief of the United Nation refugee agency, Ruud Lubbers, today urged the Angolan Government to make the rehabilitation of war-damaged areas - particularly the removal of landmines and the restoration of basic services - a top priority so that more refugees will be able to return home soon.

The remains of some of the Kuwaitis listed missing for more than 12 years since Iraq's invasion of its southern neighbour have been identified among the bodies found in mass graves, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in his latest report on the repatriation of all Kuwaiti and third-country nationals or their mortal remains.

The head of the United Nations refugee agency met today with President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to discuss the impending return of more than 300,000 Congolese refugees and the care of displaced people and other asylum seekers in the vast central African nation.

In a voluntary disarmament exercise by key Afghan factions, a United Nations-assisted security commission has collected 120 light and heavy weapons in the northern region of the country, a flashpoint for tensions between rival militias.

A United Nations assessment team arrived today in Monrovia for a first-hand look at security and humanitarian conditions inside the war-wrecked Liberian capital, aiming to fine-tune requirements for a proposed UN force that would help guide the country's transitional government and support implementation of a new peace accord.

Determined to boost the safety of United Nations staff and stay the course in Iraq despite Tuesday’s deadly terrorist bombing, Secretary-General Kofi Annan discussed additional security measures today with United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Declaring “the ache in our souls is almost too much to bear,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought today to console the grief of the United Nations family worldwide with a message of sheer determination to carry on undaunted by the deadly terrorist bombing Tuesday of UN headquarters in Iraq.

Although some United Nations staff are leaving Iraq for medical treatment or stress counselling following Tuesday’s deadly terrorist attack, two thirds of the more than 300 employees are staying in the country, determined to carry on with their work, the acting head of UN operations in Baghdad said today.

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced deep concern at the sharp escalation in violence in the Middle East, and calling on both sides to curb their actions he reaffirmed the importance of sticking to the Road Map peace plan.