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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is opening two new resident representative offices, in Jamaica and in Antigua and Barbuda, the latter to cover IMF member countries in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. The establishment of these offices will further deepen the IMF's dialogue with the country's authorities and other important regional stakeholders, including trade unions, the private sector, academics, and non-governmental organizations. The IMF already has a Resident Representative office in Haiti.

New York: The Security Council has extended the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission tasked with organizing a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara for another year.

New York: The relationship between indigenous peoples and forests was among the major issues discussed during a two-week forum at United Nations Headquarters that wrapped up, with participants voicing concern about the impact on lives and livelihoods of deforestation, extraction activities and large-scale building projects.

New York: The quality and reach of health care in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) needs to improve and the country's Government should allocate more of its domestic budget for health programmes, a senior United Nations official said after wrapping up a visit to the Asian country.

New York: Regional cooperation and partnerships among the public, private and civil society could help the Asia and Pacific region lead to the development of a road map to low-carbon economic growth, participants said at a United Nations forum in China.

New York: The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia dealing with mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge three decades ago dismissed appeals by three of the regime's leaders to release them from provisional detention ahead of their trials.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has exhorted ministers from Central African nations to work towards adopting a legal instrument to combat illicit arms trafficking, a move that will help reduce violence and bring peace and security to countries in the sub-region.

New York: Two years after Cyclone Nargis left 2.4 million people in need of emergency food, housing and other forms of critical assistance, the United Nations aid coordinator in Myanmar said that just a quarter of the pledged funds have come in and the gap threatens the long-term revival of the area hit by the disaster.

New York: The effects of the humanitarian crisis sparked by the military offensive against insurgents in north-western Pakistan a year ago persist despite the return of most of the two million people who fled their homes because of the conflict, the United Nations refugee agency reported.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on every nation to become a party to the Rome Statute that set up the International Criminal Court (ICC), stressing the vital role played by the institution in ending impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.