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United Nations humanitarian agencies have now wrapped up their emergency relief operations in Lebanon following this summer’s war between Israel and Hizbollah and are moving on to the recovery and reconstruction phase, a spokesman announced in New York today.

The United Nations police force in Timor-Leste has intervened to stop fighting between gangs and internally displaced persons (IDPs) that forced the closing of the airport in the small South-East Asian nation, shaken earlier this year by violence attributed to differences between eastern and western regions.

The United Nations should do more to encourage Member States to adopt national action plans to more fully integrate women in peace and security issues, especially in countries recovering from conflict, the UN Special Adviser on Gender Issues said today.

Strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in peacebuilding and conflict prevention, along with developments in Asia since the reported nuclear test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), are among the issues being discussed by the UN’s top political officer in meetings with high-level officials during a three-nation visit.

The United Nations has protested to the Sudanese Government over its decision to ask for the removal of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative in the country Jan Pronk, a UN spokesman said today.

All political sides in divided and strife-torn Côte d’Ivoire must compromise to move the peace process forward, the two most senior United Nations officials to the West African country said today, but while painting a generally grim picture of the situation they held out some hope for change next year.

Two Eritreans forcibly entered a post of the United Nations peacekeeping force overseeing the ceasefire along the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia over the weekend, and one of them was fatally shot when UN military personnel responded, the UN mission reported today.

The United Nations General Assembly today remained deadlocked after a fourth day of voting in the contest to fill a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the Latin American and Caribbean region, with Guatemala maintaining its lead over Venezuela but falling short of the necessary two-thirds majority.

Swiss winner of some 10 ‘World Music Awards’ DJ BOBO today joined Brazilian football superstar Ronaldinho, Cape-Verdian singer Cesaria Evora and world record breaking marathon runner Paul Tergat, among others, as a National Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

Emphasizing the need for the United Nations system and wider international community to maintain their support for strife-torn Burundi, the Security Council today voted to set up an integrated office in the country to follow on from the current mission that ends on 31 December.