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A persistent lack of security and funding shortfalls are placing Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda in greater danger of food shortage and complete dependency on aid for survival, the United Nations warned today.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is considering a trip to Cyprus and the region during the end of February, a UN spokesman said today.

The United Nations Security Council decided today that an upcoming briefing on Iraq by the UN's top weapons inspectors will be open to non-Council members.

Ahead of his briefing the Security Council on Friday, a top UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, met in New York today with the College of Commissioners of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).

Expressing deep concern that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has rejected efforts at dialogue and is now in further non-compliance with international nuclear safeguards, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today decided to report the matter to the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly.

The western part of Côte d’Ivoire along the country’s border with Liberia remains an area of the most serious concern because of ongoing violence, the top United Nations envoy for the crisis said today at the conclusion of her month-long West African mission.

United Nations weapons monitors in Iraq today continued their efforts to hold private interviews with the country's scientists and biological experts.

Iraqi oil revenues for the week ending 7 February totalled $320 million based on the export of 11.8 million barrels, according to the United Nations office overseeing the humanitarian "oil-for-food" programme, which allows Baghdad to use a portion of its petroleum sales to buy relief supplies.

United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq who sought to interview one of the country's biological scientists did not hold the discussion after he objected to the format, a UN spokesman in Baghdad reported today.

Responding to the staggering number of deaths and injuries caused by traffic collisions, government representatives from around the world joined top United Nations health officials today in London in a joint effort to improve road safety.