United Nations international staff withdrawn from Baghdad last week and a team from UN New York headquarters began a thorough review in Cyprus today of future operations in Iraq and the security arrangements that will be required.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Peru's President Alejandro Toledo today held talks and reviewed job-creation schemes during the third leg of Mr. Annan's South American tour.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will launch the 2004 Consolidated Appeal on behalf of the United Nations humanitarian agencies next week, seeking to help some 45 million people around the world.
The United Nations Security Council held closed-door consultations today on a quarterly report on Côte d'Ivoire from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, recommending a six-month extension of the UN mission's mandate there in the hope that governmental authority can be restored throughout the country.
The United Nations mission in Liberia (UNMIL) said today that the displacement of 10,000 people by recent fighting is depleting food stocks and putting strains on the resources of host families.
The United Nations Security Council’s Sanctions Committee today sent a mission to Somalia and its neighbours to investigate and tighten the arms embargo designed to end more than a decade of Somali civil strife.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed Western Saharan Frente POLISARIO's release of 300 Moroccan prisoners of war and their repatriation on November 8, his spokesman said.
An exhibit on the 70th anniversary of the great famine in Ukraine, which took millions of lives due to the forced collectivization policies of Joseph Stalin, has opened at United Nations headquarters in New York with several speakers calling the tragedy a dark page in world history.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar wound up a six-day visit to the country today with a call for an amnesty for all political prisoners and the lifting of government-imposed restrictions on political expression, the UN spokesman said today.