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The former head of Bosnian Muslim forces during the Balkan wars of the 1990s went on trial today at the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges that include murder, rape and torture.

Ban Ki-moon’s Special Adviser on Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, is meeting today with senior Government officials in Beijing as part of wider consultations in the region on the situation in the South-East Asian nation, a spokesperson for the world body announced.

The United Nations agency tasked with helping Palestinian refugees has announced that it has halted construction on all of its building projects in the Gaza Strip because restrictions at the crossing points with Israel have led to a shortage of basic building supplies.

The Security Council today condemned last week’s suicide car bombing near a popular tourist site in Yemen that claimed the lives of nine people, stressing the need to bring the sponsors as well as the perpetrators of all terrorist attacks to justice.

More than 3,500 officers have now graduated from Liberia’s Police Academy as part of United Nations-backed efforts to improve the rule of law in the West African country and help the nation rehabilitate after more than a decade of brutal civil war.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has assured Guinea-Bissau of the world body’s support in organizing and monitoring the parliamentary elections to be held next year in the small West African country, which has witnessed rising political and social tensions, and a deteriorating economic situation.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Colombian authorities are set to melt down nearly 14,000 firearms today in a special ceremony highlighting the danger of illegal arms proliferation and marking International Gun Destruction Day.

Inspectors from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will return to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to monitor the shutdown and eventual abandonment of the Yongbyon nuclear facilities, it was announced today.

The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo today urged the Security Council to quickly draw up a roadmap for determining the status of the province, which the world body has administered since NATO troops drove out Yugoslav forces amid inter-ethnic fighting in 1999.

The world’s poorest countries have benefited the least from globalization and yet suffered the most from the phenomenon’s downsides, the General Assembly President said today at the opening of a conference convened to help those States make lasting economic gains.