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As United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan prepares to travel to the Balkans later this week, the senior UN environment official has reported to him on the presence of depleted uranium (DU) in the region.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is visiting a dozen sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina that may have been targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium (DU) during the conflict which engulfed the country in the 1990s, the agency announced today.

United Nations experts have found depleted uranium (DU) contamination in four of the six sites in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia targeted during the 1999 Kosovo conflict by ordnance containing the substance, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) agency said today.

A team of experts from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is visiting the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia this week to investigate sites in Serbia and Montenegro that were targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium (DU) during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.

The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a desk reference on depleted uranium (DU) containing guidelines on how to deal appropriately with the substance's impact on human health.