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While treaty regimes have great potential to stem the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, reliable verification measures are essential to addressing the problem, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.

The Palestinian Authority has opened a new court building in the West Bank city of Nablus, constructed under a scheme run by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

After spending a day in the field listening to horror stories of aerial bombings and militia attacks, the United Nations refugee chief has acknowledged that the estimated 110,000 Sudanese who have fled their country and poured into eastern Chad may not be able to go home anytime soon.

Voicing “extreme concern,” the United Nations emergency food agency said today an upsurge in fighting over past weeks in parts of Burundi has prevented it from feeding thousands of newly displaced people.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a $200,000 emergency operation to assist the victims of last month’s earthquake that devastated the Al-Hoceima region in northeastern Morocco.

Lesotho’s humanitarian crisis has entered a third year because of another severe drought and the worsening impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the United Nations envoy to southern Africa warned today ahead of a visit by senior UN officials to the small landlocked State.

With food security a major challenge in post-conflict Burundi, the country's authorities should rehabilitate the agricultural sector and address the question of access to land, a high-level United Nations advisory group says in a report.

Members of the United Nations anti-terrorism committee today agreed on the need to "revitalize" its work in order to adapt to the evolving nature of its mission and voiced support for a plan that aims to enhance the Security Council's ability to help countries implement a resolution - adopted in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks against the United States - to fight the worldwide scourge.

The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) took an average of 347 days to recruit staff to professional-level and other senior posts in 2002 - almost three times longer than the UN target, according to a report issued today by the UN's internal auditing body.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of two women to posts at the level of Assistant Secretary-General: Elisabeth Lindenmayer of France and Angela Kane of Germany.