The United Nations today launched an emergency "Flash Appeal" for $35 million to meet the medical and nutritional needs of 3 million Haitians over the next six months.
As the 10-year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide approaches, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today proposed the establishment of a Special Rapporteur or Adviser on the prevention of genocide.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is looking forward to working with the Russian Federation's incoming Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the country's former Permanent Representative to the United Nations who was appointed to the new post today, a UN spokesman said.
Filming has begun on The Interpreter, the first movie to be shot inside the United Nations Headquarters in New York, after the UN gave formal permission to the movie's producers on Friday.
The United Nations has stepped up its campaign to meet the growing demand for French-speaking peacekeepers, with missions in Côte d'Ivoire, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) either proposed or expanding.
While noting with satisfaction marked progress in cooperation by Iran, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency today voiced serious concern over gaps in Tehran’s declaration of nuclear activities and called on it to take the “vital” initiative to provide all relevant information fully and promptly in the coming months.
Pointing to the expected repatriation of millions of refugees and internally displaced people across Africa, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today called for global support to break the continent's cycle of poverty, violence and despair.
If the United Nations undertakes new peacekeeping operations in Africa and Haiti this year as expected, stronger support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would be "tremendously helpful," Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
Reacting to news of the signing of an interim constitution by Iraqis today in Baghdad, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed the need for all-encompassing, nationwide discussions that would help boost stability in the country.