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More than 150 representatives of Caribbean nations, regional and international agencies, and the private sector are in Trinidad and Tobago this week to discuss plans for the development of the Caribbean region, a United Nations spokesman said today.

United Nations Member States need to explore practical methods of strengthening world security with particular urgency at a time when recent events had shown that people outside of government could produce and use weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), a senior UN official said today.

With world economic growth depending too much on one country, the international community must help developing countries adopt measures that improve their abilities to play greater roles in world trade and to absorb new technologies, a senior United Nations official said today.

Responding to a spate of attacks on relief personnel in Afghanistan, the United Nations refugee agency today condemned the trend while vowing to continue its work on behalf of the country's beleaguered people.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly deplored the Israeli air strike on Syrian territory, warning that it could inflame violence in the troubled region.

Meeting in response to the latest developments in the Middle East, speakers in the Security Council today denounced Israel's attacks on Syrian territory, which were widely viewed as a grave escalation of violence in an already volatile region.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned the suicide bombing which killed at least 18 people in Haifa, Israel.

The United Nations refugee agency has launched an urgent appeal for $16.6 million to avert a humanitarian disaster on the Chad-Sudan border, where more than 65,000 Sudanese refugees, mainly women and children fleeing fighting in Africa’s largest country, have been living in desperate conditions for months.

The United Nations Security Council today turned its attention to Sudan, studying an agreement reached last week between rebels in the south and authorities in Khartoum, aimed at settling the two-decade old conflict.

United Nations Security Council members today called on all parties in Côte d'Ivoire, particularly the rebel Forces Nouvelles, to adhere to peace agreements reached earlier this year to bring about national reconciliation.