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The senior United Nations official in charge of peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today deplored a weekend attack on a UN helicopter as "very serious and unacceptable."

The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency agreed today with the United States and the United Kingdom that it will verify Libya is free of weapons of mass destruction while those two countries will remove "sensitive" equipment and material.

Despite limitations imposed by the security situation in Iraq, the United Nations is still carrying out a wide range of assistance to the country’s people through its national staff and Iraqi contractors, who are supported by several hundred international staff in the region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told representatives of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and the Iraqi Governing Council today.

Taking a step forward on the path to full equality for disabled persons, a United Nations working group has drafted the text of an international treaty protecting their rights.

The first 50 of the estimated 20,000 school-age children whose schools were damaged or demolished in quake-devastated Bam, Iran, return to school today, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.

Emerging from what he called “a very frank and open” exchange of views with top coalition and Iraqi officials, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he is considering a request by the parties that he send an advisory team to Iraq to examine the feasibility of elections before the end of June as well as possible alternatives.

Officials from the United Nations refugee agency have relocated the first batches of Sudanese refugees from their makeshift homes along the unstable border with Chad to safer camps further inside that country.

Senior officials from the Iraqi Governing Council and the Coalitional Provisional Authority today welcomed the involvement of the United Nations in the transitional period ahead, following talks in New York with Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights today named Ambassador Michael Smith of Australia to chair the Geneva-based body's sixtieth session, which runs from 15 March to 23 April.

In a report released today that says progress in resolving the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict remains "painfully slow," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeals to the Abkhaz side to abandon its "uncompromising position" and negotiate a settlement with the new Georgian Government.