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The message of Mahatma Gandhi, whose peaceful struggle helped birth an independent India and inspired countless people around the world, is needed now more than ever amid rising global tensions, intolerance and conflict, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.

Whether it is resolving conflicts, protecting human rights, achieving development goals or safeguarding the environment, the only viable way to effectively tackle today’s complex global challenges is through multilateral cooperation, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.

The United Nations General Assembly today decided to observe the International Day of Non-Violence each year on 2 October – the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who helped lead India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

To reflect the profound changes that have taken place in the developing world over the last few decades, global institutions must evolve to give nations of the South a greater voice, and those countries must exercise greater responsibility at home and abroad, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the annual summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Havana today.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be travelling to Havana, Cuba, this week to attend the annual summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), his spokesman announced today.

The Non-Aligned Movement, which exists to give voice to developing countries and advance a more democratic international order, must move forward with the United Nations towards their shared goals, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.

A conference at the United Nations to review the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) will end today having accomplished “very little” amid what its President said were widely diverging views tackling nuclear arms and their spread.

The month-long conference at the United Nations reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) heads into the final hours of its work with its main committees unable to agree on the texts they have been considering.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that recent developments with the nuclear programmes in Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) illustrated how important it was for parties currently in New York reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to speed up their work.

Nearly halfway through a four-week conference reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), delegations meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York have adopted an agenda which will enable them to go on with their work.