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Work is progressing well in the United Nations Security Council committee monitoring the implementation of a broad counter-terrorism resolution adopted in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks against the United States, the panel's chairman said today.

A United Nations envoy today warned against too many initiatives in dealing with Somalia as the Security Council held a daylong open debate on the situation in the country.

The United Nations Security Council today extended the mandate of the UN committee monitoring sanctions imposed in 1993, 1997 and 1998 against forces of the UNITA rebel organization in Angola.

The key challenge for upcoming international policy forums on how to manage globalization is to place development at the centre of their discussions, instead of viewing it as a product of globalization, according to a just released report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

More than 500 refugees crossed into East Timor this morning on the second day of mass returns from camps located in the Indonesian part of the island, the United Nations Transitional Administration (UNTAET) in the territory said today.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Governments of the Sudan and Eritrea are scheduled to resume a massive return operation this weekend to bring home more than 160,000 Eritrean refugees, many of whom have been in exile since the late 1960s, the agency said today.

With the rainy season approaching, renewed fighting in eastern Angola has sent thousands of Angolans fleeing into Zambia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.

A regional meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, preparing for a major United Nation conference on environmental issues, has urged African countries to mobilize their efforts to promote sustainable development and called on the international community to support that undertaking.

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Catherine Bertini today named former United States Senator George McGovern as the agency's first Global Ambassador on Hunger.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the launch of an emergency operation to feed 300,000 people in Sri Lanka, where a severe and prolonged drought has pushed large segments of the population into hardship.