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The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) called today for the reduction and elimination of agricultural subsidies and urged developed countries to implement the commitments they made at the Doha trade conference in 2001 to facilitate market access for the products of developing countries.

The United Nations Security Council today welcomed the announcement that President Joseph Kabila has signed a decree setting up a new power-sharing government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The number of companies worldwide participating in the United Nations Global Compact, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's initiative to advance good corporate citizenship and responsible globalization, doubled to more than 1,000 over the past year, according to its latest annual report released today.

In a message to Caribbean Heads of State gathered in Jamaica to discuss crucial issues affecting the region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the United Nations would continue to work in partnership with them on a range of challenges including international trade and HIV/AIDS.

The United Nations mission in Timor-Leste today rebutted recent media allegations that the world body's police force had failed to adequately investigate the trafficking of women and organized prostitution in the country.

The President of the United Nations Security Council for July said today that while tackling volatile developments in Africa would be a major focus throughout the month, the 15-nation body was also set to hold the first review of the implementation of its resolution on arrangements for post-war Iraq.

A United Nations Security Council delegation on a seven-country assessment mission in conflict-plagued West Africa, arrived in Ghana today for a briefing on the status of the Liberian peace talks underway in Accra.

A former colonel in the Yugoslav Peoples Army (JNA) has been transferred to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) detention unit where he awaits trial for crimes against humanity and other war crimes, including the murder of at least 200 non-Serbs.

Though hampered by and uncertain security environment and a shortage of supplies, United Nations and other humanitarian agencies took advantage of a relative lull in the fighting in and around the Liberian capital of Monrovia to resume some basic relief activities today.

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency will go to Tehran next week for talks on Iran’s nuclear programme following an agency call for environmental samplings and enhanced inspections in the face of the country’s failure to disclose certain nuclear material and activities.