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Several United Nations agencies and their partners will be holding a special conference next week in Switzerland to discuss a worldwide concerted approach to deal with the threat of an avian flu pandemic, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

As the national army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began a two-week operation today to clear thousands of heavily armed Rwandan Hutu rebels from the densely forested Virunga National Park in the east, the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUC) took up positions to secure the cleared areas.

Few activities of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have undergone so major an expansion in so short a period as its security programme against nuclear terrorism, but at the same time the array of challenges facing it in the area of non-proliferation is unprecedented, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the General Assembly today.

The senior United Nations envoy to Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, today discussed the results of the recent constitutional referendum with the country's prime minister, Ibrahim Jaafari.

United Nations Secretary-General today condemned the series of deadly terrorist bombings that rocked the Indian capital, New Delhi, and urged the country's Government to prosecute those responsible.

United Nations Secretary-General today pledged his personal support for the peace process in Côte d'Ivoire and urged the parties to refrain from any actions that would jeopardize stability as a new head of government is appointed in the troubled West African country.

Facing a 52 per cent shortfall in funds for one of the biggest voluntary repatriation operations worldwide and the largest in Africa, the United Nations refugee agency warned today that it might have to suspend the return of hundreds of thousands of Burundians from Tanzania as their homeland emerges from decades of war.

The lives of many Zambians could be in peril with the number of people needing food assistance climbing to at least 1.7 million due to crop failure and rising food prices, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today in an urgent appeal for more funds.

Although globalization carries with it enormous benefits for least developed nations, growing disparities in the standard of living and level of human security are driving workers from the world’s poorest countries across borders in search of better opportunities, the United Nations representative for least developed countries has said.

Calling for more contributions to help re-unite families separated during the conflict in Western Sahara, the Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) there until next April.