Travelling by air and over land, United Nations arms inspectors today continued to fan out across Iraq probing the country's suspected covert weapons programme.
A senior law enforcement official from India has been appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the next United Nations Civilian Police Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the first woman to hold the job.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed of a senior military officer from Poland as the Force Commander of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM).
With the humanitarian situation rapidly deteriorating in Côte d'Ivoire, top United Nations officials will head to Paris next week for a talks aimed at ending the ongoing conflict.
The United Nations today said aid agencies do not have enough relief supplies to assist the growing number of people in need and lack the resources to help newly displaced persons as fighting continues in the Pool region of the Republic of the Congo.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to reconsider its decision to withdraw from a global nuclear weapons treaty and urged Pyongyang to engage in dialogue with the international community.
Following the announcement by the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said he regretted the move and strongly urged Pyongyang to reconsider its decision.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has sent a letter informing the Security Council of its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the President of the 15-nation body said today.
United Nations human rights experts today condemned the assassinations of two prominent Guatemalan indigenous leaders, whose bodies were discovered late last month.