Voicing concern over the difficult situation in Sri Lanka, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said he still hopes that the peace talks between the Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) can resume in the near future.
The competition for foreign investment has intensified so much that many host countries are no longer stipulating that investors help increase exports, provide training, or recruit local staff, according to a new United Nations report.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan today signed the country's new Constitution, triggering its formal adoption in the presence of the United Nations Acting Special Representative for Afghanistan, Jean Arnault.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan mourned the death earlier today of Sven Frederiksen, head of the European Union's police mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled today to Paris, where he will take part in an international policy dialogue as part of the Global Compact - an initiative he pioneered to foster corporate adherence to labour, environment and human rights standards.
A senior United Nations official today told a conference in the Bahamas on small island developing States (SIDS) that these nations, though facing a set of specific challenges, have a great contribution to make to the global community.
As people across Afghanistan register to vote, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the UN Commission on the Status of Women to issue recommendations aimed at helping the country's women to participate fully in politics.
The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), implementing "rapid impact projects," has renovated a building to house university students and built another to train the deaf.
The Security Council wrapped up a day-long debate today on the role of the United Nations in national reconciliation after wars, hearing UN officials warn the process will never work unless the conflict's root causes are tackled and its most serious crimes punished.