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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met in Switzerland today with officials and leaders from several countries for talks covering the Middle East peace process, developments in Iraq and the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Appreciable progress has been made in addressing United Nations Security Council recommendations on strengthening security for four West African countries, but more remains to be done, a senior UN official said today.

A two-person team from the United Nations is in Iraq for talks with the coalition on various security matters, a UN spokesman in New York confirmed today.

Countries from the Horn of Africa at a United Nations-sponsored meeting have reaffirmed their commitment to the fight against terrorism and transnational organized crime and voiced their serious concern about the menace these problems pose in the region.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and the head of Liberia's Transitional Government, C. Gyude Bryant, are scheduled to address an international donors' conference next month seeking hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild the war-torn West African country.

The United Nations refugee agency is monitoring the border between Chad and Sudan following reports that 18,000 additional Sudanese refugees have crossed into Chad this week to escape fighting in the Darfur region.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Microsoft Corporation today launched a new initiative to provide technology training in community education centres across the developing world.

The Transitional Government and the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), handling a difficult post-conflict situation, must make a clear priority list of their requirements for security, human rights, the rule of law and elections, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report released today.

The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed the news that a Cambodian opposition member will be released from detention in Thailand and allowed to join his family in Finland after Cambodia dropped its extradition request.

Welcoming a decision by United States legislators to appropriate a contribution of $34 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), its chief today urged the administration in Washington to release the money.