UN Calls for an Updated Council
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The United Nations proposed the most sweeping changes in its history today, recommending the overhaul of its key decision-making organ, the Security Council, and suggesting
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The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday urged all Lebanese political parties to enter into talks to prevent a further deterioration of the political crisis there.
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Intervening in a Security Council debate, Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the panel on Thursday to act quickly on a new resolution to curb the violence in Darfur
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Support is growing at the UN for a joint bid by four influential countries to increase the number of members of the Security Council.
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Amid the vitriol and accusations, leaders at this year's General Assembly meeting sounded the same note: The U.N. Security Council doesn't represent our interests anymore, and it must be reshaped to reflect the world of 2006, not 1945, the year it was created.
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UNITED NATIONS : UN Security Council nations met to look for common ground on a disputed US draft resolution pressing Sudan to rein in the Arab militias behind the bloodshed in Darfur.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council today to take swift action in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region where he said violence was on the rise, the number of displaced
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PARIS - Forty-six nations called for the creation of a more powerful U.N. environment agency on Saturday, saying the survival of humanity was at risk, but the United ...Comment
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A high-level panel called for sweeping reform of the United Nations in the wake of bitter divisions over the U.S.-led war in Iraq, with proposals to expand the Security Council and to give the powerful body clear guidelines for authorizing preventive military attacks.
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The rules for using military force will be a key focus for an international panel working to update and reform the United Nations, a member of the panel said on Monday.
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Members of the UN Security Council Monday visited the Congo, one of the conflict-ridden countries the world body is seeking to bring peace and stability.
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The U.N. Security Council called  on Wednesday for more funds for a hard-pressed African Union  peacekeeping force in Somalia and asked the U.N.  secretary-general to keep planning for a U.N. force there.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the UN Security Council Wednesday to urgently reassess its efforts to end nearly two-years of conflict and bloodshed in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, saying the current approach isn&#39;t working.
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The Hague Tribunal is under pressure. As a body established by the UN, it is bound by the UN's decisions.
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NEW YORK - Germany has called for the speedy reform of the 59-year-old United Nations joining other nations in pressing for a restructuring of the ageing organisation to help it meet new global changes.
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It has been reported that United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan is making preparations for a new initiative for a solution to the problems of Cyprus in 2005, and has demanded an allocation for a UN Cypriot office to be reactivated.
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UNITED NATIONS  - Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the UN Security Council Wednesday to urgently reassess its efforts to end nearly two-years of conflict and bloodshed in Sudan's western Darfur region, saying the current approach isn't working.