UN envoy set to return to Burma
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UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari will return to Burma in early November after the date of his visit is moved forward.
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The US urges Burma to include opposition parties and minority groups as its National Convention reopens.
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Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan was due to arrive in Kenya on Tuesday to try to mediate in a post-poll crisis that has torn the country in two and triggered weeks of violence that killed at least 650 people.
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The EU's special envoy for Myanmar on Tuesday urged the country's military regime to free democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he kicked off an Asian tour aimed at pressuring the junta for reform.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday he will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories later this month in an effort to help revive the Mideast peace process.
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The United Nations envoy on Myanmar said Tuesday he was "encouraged" by Indian pledges to support efforts to resolve the crisis in its military-ruled neighbour.
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar to admit a top U.N. envoy immediately, but China immediately ruled out calls for sanctions or a U.N. condemnation of the ruling junta's use of force.
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A UN envoy to Sudan will visit Darfur tomorrow to check on the government&#39;s claim that some 70,000 people displaced by conflict there have voluntarily returned to their homes, a spokesman said.
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Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is expected to announce the date of her return to Pakistan.
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The top United Nations envoy for Iraq has returned to Baghdad this week and is meeting with a wide spectrum of Iraqi political leaders and actors to see how theworld body
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President George W. Bush is set to announce new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar over human rights as the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders gets under way on Tuesday.
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UN inspectors are expected Thursday to visit the reactor at the centre of North Korea&#39;s nuclear programme in their first on-site inspection in nearly five years, the head of the team said.
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The United Nations expert on human rights in Myanmar said on Monday he would visit the reclusive military-ruled Asian country next month to look into its fierce crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
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The US ambassador to the UN is to leave his post when his temporary appointment runs out, officials say.
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The UN holds talks on the crisis in Burma, following a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
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Myanmar's military leader General Than Shwe will arrive in New Delhi for a visit focused on trade and the issue of Indian rebels operating out of Myanmar, the foreign office said.
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The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has renewed an appeal to Burma to free detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all other political prisoners.