The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in Syria ahead of ministerial talks taking place in New York on (...)
Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a UN Security Council ban on weapons exports by Tehran, according to a confidential report on Iran sanctions-busting.
Iran, like Russia, is one of Syria's few allies as it (...)
Opportunities from the Arab Spring to boost the low number of women in parliaments are being missed, while globally the average number of female politicians inched up half a point last year to 19.5 percent, an organization of parliaments said late (...)
moon and the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are concerned at the possibility that Syria may have chemical weapons, a UN spokesman said on Thursday.
“On Syria, the Secretary-General and the Director-General (...)
Libyan authorities should grant Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the former leader charged with war crimes, immediate access to a lawyer to help ensure he has due process, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Last month Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief (...)
Delays in forming an Iraqi government are hurting infrastructure and services across the conflict-torn country and adding to uncertainty about its future, the UN envoy to Iraq said on Wednesday.
Nearly five months after a parliamentary election, (...)
After months of tough negotiations, Security Council powers said on Tuesday they were set to vote on a resolution that would impose a fourth round of UN sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program.
Mexico's UN Ambassador Claude Heller, current (...)
A UN Security Council draft resolution, seen by Reuters on Tuesday, calls for expanding punitive measures against Iran, its banking and other industries for refusing to halt sensitive nuclear activities.
The 10-page draft resolution, which was (...)
The UN Development Program (UNDP) has named Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as a “Goodwill Ambassador” for the global fight against poverty, the agency announced Wednesday.
The UNDP said Banderas will use his celebrity status to draw attention to (...)
A US official denied Friday that Washington had consented to a UN Security Council statement to reporters voicing concern about the fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinians.
Gabon's UN Ambassador Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, president of the (...)
The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on Eritrea Wednesday because of aid that council members say the Horn of Africa country has given to insurgents in nearby Somalia.
A resolution supported by 13 of the 15 council members slapped an embargo (...)
moon Friday pursued an attempt to resolve a Spanish-Moroccan impasse over a hunger strike by a Western Sahara independence activist by raising the issue with Morocco's foreign minister.
On Thursday, the UN secretary-general telephoned Spanish (...)
Iran has told the UN nuclear watchdog it wants fresh fuel for a reactor in Tehran before it will agree to ship most of its enriched uranium stocks to Russia and France, diplomats said Friday.
In what the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (...)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the world body Friday for money and emergency powers to boost UN security globally after a deadly attack by Taleban militants on a Kabul guest house this week. “The United Nations, increasingly, has become a (...)
The United Arab Emirates seized a ship several weeks ago that was bound for Iran and carrying North Korean weapons in violation of a UN.embargo, Western diplomats said Friday.
“They (UAE) did seize the ship and it was carrying weapons from North (...)
Chile's UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz will head a six-month UN inquiry into the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday.
The other two members of the UN “Bhutto Commission” are Indonesia's (...)
The world will probably never find out how many innocent civilians died during the bloody final phase of Sri Lanka's war against Tamil Tigers rebels, the UN humanitarian chief said.
The United Nations believes that anywhere from 80,000 to 100,000 (...)
UN Security Council members see no point withholding an IMF loan or taking other steps to punish Sri Lanka, the council's president said, the same day Sri Lanka's president rejected international calls for a ceasefire with rebels.
“I have not heard (...)
Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, unveiled a mural of clouds in the sky that was auctioned in 67 puzzle pieces to raise funds and to mark the second annual World Autism Awareness Day on Thursday.
The 76-year-old Japanese artist and musician (...)
The United Nations is concerned about the possibility of collaboration between pirates and government officials in Somalia's Puntland region, according to a new UN report prepared by the office of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the Security (...)
US President George W. Bush on Thursday called religious freedom the foundation of a healthy society and defended the US record in protecting Muslims caught up in foreign conflicts.
Addressing a United Nations “interfaith” meeting in almost (...)
Instead of sidelining the fight against climate change, the global credit crisis could hasten countries' efforts to create “green growth” industries by revamping the financial system behind them, the UN climate chief said on Friday.
But that would (...)
Six world powers handed a draft resolution on Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council on Friday, but it included no new sanctions and Russia said it was not the time to consider them.
US Ambassador Alejandro Wolff said the resolution, (...)
US President George W. Bush and other world leaders scrambled on Tuesday to contain the fallout from a financial crisis engulfing Wall Street and sending shock waves across the globe.
In his farewell speech to the United Nations, Bush offered (...)
Pakistan has reached a "broad understanding" with the United Nations on aspects of a proposed UN investigation into the killing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto but details remain to be worked out, its foreign minister said on Thursday.
UN (...)