Algeria ignored request to tighten security: UNDP head
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Algerian authorities had not responded to a request for tighter security around UN premises that were the target of a suicide attack in Algiers last month, the head of the UN development agency (UNDP) said Wednesday.
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The African Union has objected to a proposal for a 23,000-strong AU-U.N. force to help end the bloodshed in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because it would give the United Nations command and control, U.N. diplomats said Friday.
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The United Nations has ruled out blocking the appointment of an ex-guerrilla commander as prime minister of Kosovo, despite concern in the West that he could be charged with war crimes.
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The U.N. chief vowed Wednesday to keep United Nations staff in Algeria, saying the bombing of its offices in the north African nation will not deter the world body from helping people in need.
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Northern-based Ivory Coast rebels are refusing mounting pressure to disarm, saying they still lack confidence in President Laurent Gbagbo to implement a stalled peace accord.
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ABUJA: Sudan will ignore a UN Security Council deadline to end militia attacks in Darfur by the end of the month and instead resolve the crisis through African Union peace talks, Khartoumâs chief negotiator said on Thursday.
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Algeria's interior minister on Thursday scoffed at a U.N. plan for an independent probe into the December terror attacks in Algiers that killed 17 U.N. employees.
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VIENNA, Austria  - The UN nuclear watchdog agency failed Monday to make a judgment on the origin of some technology for Libya's weapons program, a finding that diplomats said kept concern alive of North Korean involvement.
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UN nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei has dismissed claims he timed news of missing explosives in Iraq to affect the outcome of the US election.
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Egypt&#39;s Minister of Tourism, Ahmed El Maghrabi, denied reports that the number of tourists visiting Egypt declined following the October 7 attacks on the Hilton Hotel in Taba.
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Backed by the African Union, Somalia's government appealed to the United Nations on Friday to send a peacekeeping force there, but the Security Council delayed a response until next month, diplomats said.
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The governments of Serbia and the Bosnian Serb enclave of Bosnia-Herzegovina have failed to bring war crimes suspects to the United Nations tribunal, Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told the Security Council.
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Algeria's government has failed  to take needed measures to protect women from rape, beatings  and widespread legal and economic discrimination, Amnesty  International told a U.N. panel on Monday.
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Eritrea has ignored a U.N.  deadline to grant peacekeepers on its border with Ethiopia  access to badly needed fuel, but despite the shortfall, a U.N.  official said U.N. troops are reluctant to leave because they  fear war could erupt.
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Libya on Friday denied that discussions in Washington between its foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broached the topic of human rights.
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The Arab-Israeli conflict has kept Arabs from addressing other security concerns, including the need to rid the region of weapons of mass destruction, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday.
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Accusations of Libyan and Burkina Faso involvement in an alleged coup plot in Mauritania are rejected.