The United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) today held a memorial service for two UN peacekeepers killed in last month’s bomb explosion at a Bali nightclub.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, today warned that stability in Sierra Leone would remain vulnerable unless the Government extends its authority throughout the country, restores control over national resources, and begins to assume responsibility for security.
In a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Iraq today indicated its willingness to accept the return of weapons inspectors to the country under the terms of a new Security Council resolution - a move immediately welcomed by the President of the 15-member body.
Expressing concern over Colombia's worsening humanitarian situation, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today called for more aid to help the victims of the country's decades-long conflict.
While 83 countries are on track to achieve universal education by 2015, a key goal set at a forum in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000, nearly an equal number will not make the target, with some even going backwards, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today in a new report.
The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) announced today that 120 former Rwandan combatants had been voluntarily repatriated to their home country from the eastern part of the DRC.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, is slated to meet on Friday with Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Paul Biya of Cameroon to help them resolve the stalemate following last month’s judgment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the two countries’ dispute over the Bakassi peninsula.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed Catherine Bertini, the former head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), as the UN's top management official, effective 1 January.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has resumed the transfer of Liberian refugees from the Tekoulo transit centre in neighbouring Guinea to two camps in the interior of the country, the agency announced today.