The plan for the destruction of all Syrian chemical stockpiles outside the country will be released on Dec. 17, a UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Canada plans to extend its territorial claims in the Arctic to include the North Pole, although it currently lacks enough scientific evidence to support the claim, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Monday.
Senior UN humanitarian officials have launched a fresh appeal for the protection of medical facilities and secured access to medicines, vaccines and other vital humanitarian aid in Syria, a UN spokesperson said on Monday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said the humanitarian community continued to scale up support for people affected by Typhoon Haiyan, a month after it made landfall in the Philippines, a UN spokesman said Monday.
The UN General Assembly is to vote on Dec. 6 over whether Jordan should fill a two-year term on the UN Security Council beginning Jan. 1, 2014, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed on Wednesday a UN General Assembly committee's draft resolution about the violation of human rights in Iran, Press TV reported.
The UN political chief told the Security Council Tuesday that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have reached a "delicate moment," urging both sides to refrain from undermining the renewed peace talks.
South Sudan still faces enormous challenges in extending government's authority, addressing inter-communal clashes and human rights abuses, said a top UN envoy for the world's newest nation Monday.
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, has helped redeploy 200 Congolese police to areas liberated from the M23 rebel group, a UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
China on Tuesday was elected to the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year term.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region on Monday voiced its grave concern over recent tribal clashes there, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
Partnerships are vital in the global efforts to reduce poverty and advance social and economic progress, UN officials said here Wednesday, as they seek ways to accelerate the implementation of the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Tuesday that the tripartite meeting of the UN, Russia and the United States wasn't able to set a date for the long-delayed Syria peace talks, known as Geneva II.
A UN fact-finding group is expected to present its final report on Syria's chemical weapons in early December as a number of samples from Syria are still being studied in designated laboratories, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here Thursday.
UN Deputy Secretary Jan Eliasson on Monday expressed support for an African Union (AU) proposal to triple peacekeeping troops in Somalia to 45,000 from the current 17,551.
With exquisite melody floating in the air, renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang, seated at a piano with his graceful fingers stroking out chords, used his own way to mark a special occasion -- a ceremony held at the UN Headquarters on Monday where he was designated by as a UN Messenger of Peace.
As the UN Day was observed around the world, Xu Haoliang, a UN official appointed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, had a busy day in Beijing.
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