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Over 100 delegates from some 50 countries are gathered in Trondheim, Norway, for a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) meeting to promote wider use of responsible aquaculture as a tool in the fight against hunger and poverty.

Pacific nations are meeting this week in Apia, Samoa, to clarify a regional position in preparation for a United Nations meeting next year that seeks to address the host of challenges that small island States face due to their size and fragile ecosystems.

Commemorating the centenary of the birth of one of the titans of the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the world body today to rededicate itself to Ralph Bunche's definition of its mission - not only to preserve peace, but to make even radical change possible without violent upheaval.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency is holding a series of talks with senior governmental officials in Iran following its call last month for enhanced inspections to guarantee the peaceful nature of the country's nuclear programme after Tehran failed to disclose certain material and activities.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has announced his intention to appoint Alvaro de Soto of Peru, a key adviser on the Cyprus issue, as his new envoy for Western Sahara.

As a stronger United Nations force prepares to deploy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's volatile northeast - where kidnappings and murders persist outside the flashpoint town of Bunia - the head of the UN mission in the country today strongly condemned the latest killings, which included several relief workers among the dead.

As the top United Nations envoy for Liberia prepares to meet with potential troop contributors today, West African peacekeepers, logistical equipment and desperately needed humanitarian aid continue to flow toward the war-battered country.

The security situation in Timor-Leste has been very quiet over the past few months, with none of the problems experienced late in 2002 and early this year reoccurring, the top United Nations police official in the country said today.

The Security Council is scheduled to hold a private meeting tomorrow on the United Nations war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia amid discussions that the prosecutor’s post would be more effective if there was one for each court.

An assessment of the recently imposed timber sanctions on Liberia has determined that the embargo will have an impact on the country only when the security environment does not already preclude logging and timber exports, according to a new United Nations report released today in New York.