United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today completed the Chilean leg of his South American tour, taking part in a roundtable discussion on the future of the UN.
The top United Nations envoy for Liberia has launched a $220,000 road rehabilitation project for the capital Monrovia, part of a project by the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to quickly bring infrastructural improvements to the country and give people employment opportunities.
Children in war zones have sometimes been murdered or disfigured and many thousands have been recruited into government and rebel fighting forces, according to a new report from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN General Assembly and Security Council.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has postponed a report he was due to make to the Security Council on Liberia's compliance with a resolution that imposed sanctions on it for supporting rebels in Sierra Leone and illegal diamond trading.
The situation in the Greater Darfur region of western Sudan is so dire that the country could be facing its worst humanitarian crisis since 1988, the United Nations warned today.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he was delighted that Canada, one of the world's major maritime States, has ratified the Law of the Sea Convention.
The railways of China and Mongolia will start cargo train service tomorrow between Tianjin port, east of Beijing, and Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, as part of a project to connect Asia and Europe by rail, the United Nations regional commission for Asia and the Pacific said today.
The POLISARIO Front in Western Sahara has announced the release of 300 Moroccan prisoners of war and said their repatriation will be handled by the International Committee of the Red Cross, a spokesman for the United Nations said today.
The United Nations Security Council mission to Afghanistan today ended what it described as a “very successful visit,” but warned that security remains the key problem facing the country.
Overall progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) “has been uneven at best,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the World Economic Development Declaration Conference today.