UNDP denies firing employee over N.Korea criticism
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The U.N. Development Program, in a growing dispute with Washington over its North Korean operations, denied on Friday it fired an employee for trying to expose the agency's alleged wrongdoing in Pyongyang.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary General Kofi Annan was facing new questions on Friday about support from his own employees after UN staff cast doubt on a show of confidence in his leadership.
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North Korea refuses to resume   six-nation talks on ending its nuclear arms program because of   unilateral U.S. actions, a senior North Korean official told   the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
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UN refugee chief Ruud Lubbers was cleared of sexual harassment because the UN secretary general overruled investigators, a new report says.
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The UN staff union was meeting to discuss a no-confidence measure against senior management of the United Nations, which has been hit by a series of scandals involving top UN officials.
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Bosnia's top international envoy Paddy Ashdown has denied accusations that he acted unconstitutionally by sacking nine Bosnian Serb officials.
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An audit of operations of three UN agencies in North Korea has found no proof of US charges of systematic diversion of large-scale UN funding to the Pyongyang regime, the world body said Friday.
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The prime minister has thrown his weight behind beleaguered secretary general of the United Nations as Kofi Annan faces stringent criticism over the UN oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 1 -- U.N. agencies paid North Korean staff members and suppliers in hard currency without approval and hired only government-approved staff in violation of U.N. procedures,  auditors said Friday.
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North Korea Friday denied reports that pictures of leader Kim Jong-il had been removed from public buildings in Pyongyang and that Kim was losing influence.
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The Ministry of National Defense (MND) yesterday denied a report in the local media, which claimed that President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s ( é³æ°´æ ) presidential flight had been intercepted by
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says peacekeepers cannot be above the law on sexual abuse.
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The United Nations says its Secretary-General Kofi Annan is not to quit despite US charges of his involvement into possible fraud in the oil-for-food program.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The United Nations administrator of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province fired the U.N. police chief on Wednesday following the deaths of two Albanian demonstrators in a weekend protest rally.
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Taiwan&#39;s foreign minister on Sunday denied allegations that the island sent money to former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez, who is being investigated for his role in a bribery scandal.
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Already embattled with his ties to the Iraqi Oil for Food scandal, and what some term as the 'Food for Sex' scandal, Kofi Annan has dodged the latest bullet. Well, dodged only in the sense that specific allegations against him was removed at the last minute before passing.    The UN staff union passed a resolution sharply critical of the world body's senior management but expressed support for beleaguered Secretary General Kofi Annan.    An earlier draft of the resolution had strongly worded language about no confidence in senior staff of the United Nations, which has been buffeted by scandals over the past few months.
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United Nations, December 10: The US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, has denied that the United States is trying to push out embattled UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.