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Calling on United Nations Member States for special contributions, the UN’s nuclear weapons watchdog today warned that its late 1970s computer system is now too old to help its inspectors do an efficient job and needs to be updated.

The head of the United Nations environment agency today welcomed the decision by the Russian Duma to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, paving the way for the climate change treaty to go into effect.

By tackling poverty through AIDS prevention, conflict resolution and educational initiatives, five young people from across the globe received awards from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at a special ceremony today at the world body’s Headquarters in New York.

The parties in Western Sahara have made no progress over the last six months towards agreement on a peace plan, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report recommending a six-month extension of the United Nations mission there in order to maintain stability.

The number of displaced people needing life-saving relief in the crisis-ridden western Sudan region of Darfur jumped 10 per cent in September alone, as international aid agencies hastened to keep pace with the new demands, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator said today.

The United Nations is not likely to lend support to a special Iraqi tribunal for reasons ranging from opposition to the death penalty to the lack of a mandate for action, a spokesman for the world body said today.

A United Nations commission set up to help Cameroon and Nigeria to implement a World Court judgment on the demarcation of their land and maritime boundaries has decided to refer the dispute over the resource-rich Bakassi Peninsula back to the two countries’ leaders and Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Cambodia could become a breeding ground for terrorism if it does not receive urgently needed international cooperation to boost its ability to confront the scourge, the Chairman of the United Nations Security Council’s committee on sanctions against Al-Qaida and the Taliban warned today.

Spanish and Moroccan troops serving as part of a joint battalion are headed to Haiti to participate in the United Nations peacekeeping mission there, officials of the world body said today.

As the Security Council voted today on a reorganization of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), the head of the operation said its newly strengthened civilian component will work to build on the success of ongoing reconciliation measures.