The chance is getting brighter in becoming a permanent member in UN Security Council as per the statement of Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukharjee. According to him, India will take participation into UN Security Council as a permanent member after the expansion of UN office.

A Russian government official has said that International peacekeeping by the United Nations could be the solution to problems in "uncontrolled" territories.

Of those committing crimes against humanity, U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that a new "age of accountability" is replacing the "old era of impunity."

The United Nations News Center reported on Monday that meeting in Kampala, Uganda, at the first-ever review of the International Criminal Court established 12 years ago in Rome, Ban noted the ICC's "collective determination that crimes of humanity cannot go unpunished."

As per the latest UN report, the World's increasing nature losses can damage the world economy and the process may start very soon. Some of the ecosystems are on the edge of the point from where they are not more useful for humanity said by the Third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3).

Those ecosystems include the reducing area of forest, mass coral reef death and algal takeover of watercourses. This is undoubtedly going to hamper the economy of some of the countries.

The United Nations has said that four peacekeepers from South Africa, held for two weeks in Sudan's Darfur region, were released Monday.

The U. N. said in a release that the two men and two women, members of the joint African Union-U. N. Mission in Darfur, are to be flown home to be reunited with their families after undergoing medical examinations.

The United Nations says that a conference this month of those donating to Haiti's recovery will highlight the organization's effort toward donor solidarity.

CNN reported on Monday that U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have said that the March 31 international donors conference at U. N. headquarters in New York is focused on obtaining the means to provide shelter to displaced people, sanitation and reconstruction.

According to the United Nations the Christian community in Iraq is at great risk as violence forces many members of the minority religious group to flee.

Thousands of Christians were displaced from Mosul in northern Iraq because of lingering violence, said the U. N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Christians leaders complained they were made to feel unwelcome in an area they consider their historic homeland. Three Christian family members were killed last week in Mosul when militants stormed their house.

U. N. officials have said that a move by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to take control of an election watchdog is under constitutional review.

A move intended to take control over the appointment of members of the Afghan Election Complaints Commission, an independent election watchdog was taken by Karzai earlier this week.

According to the U. N. news service reports, Martin Nesirky, a spokesman for the United Nations, have said the international body was studying the legality of the move.

A report released by the United Nations office of Drugs and Crime said on Wednesday that illegal Internet pharmacies are thriving in India and they are increasingly becoming a source of pharmaceutical drug abuse across the globe.

The annual International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) report released said," India has emerged as one of the main sources of drugs sold through illegal Internet pharmacies, where orders placed abroad are dispatched to buyers using couriers and postal services, which have become a common means of smuggling drugs abroad."

Pharma drug abuse in Bhutan and Bangladesh are also gradually picking up, said the international report.

New York, Jan 12 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he would provide "all possible efforts" to make the Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons.

Ban's remarks were in reaction to North Korea's proposal to negotiate a peace treaty with the US to replace the ceasefire agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.

Islamabad, Jan. 5 : The Pakistan Government should take up Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor’s aggressive statement against Islamabad and China with the United Nations as it “jeopardises the security of the South Asian region”, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has said.

New York, Jan 1 : The United Nations has decided to move a quarter of its international staff (60 employees) out of Pakistan over fears of security concerns for at least six months.

The decision, which does not apply to the organization’s 2,700 Pakistani employees, will be re-evaluated in three months, according to an UN officialofficial. Improvements in the country’s security could shorten the relocation.

New York, Jan 1 - The UN investigation into the 2007 assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is to take three months longer than planned.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon informed Pakistan's government that the report on the inquiry would now be finished March 31, a UN spokesman said here Thursday.

New York, Dec 30 - The UN podium is the only place in the world where leaders great and small, and their opponents, can attack each other without physical harm.

And perhaps the most memorable moment at the UN in 2009 was when Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi strode into the General Assembly Sep 23 to deliver a stinging tirade against superpowers and the world organisation.

Gaddafi - making his first ever appearance before the 192-nation assembly in New York - was determined to shock the audience of presidents and prime ministers.

New York, Dec 30 - The UN podium is the only place in the world where leaders great and small, and their opponents, can attack each other without physical harm.

And perhaps the most memorable moment at the UN in 2009 was when Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi strode into the General Assembly Sep 23 to deliver a stinging tirade against superpowers and the world organisation.

Gaddafi - making his first ever appearance before the 192-nation assembly in New York - was determined to shock the audience of presidents and prime ministers.

New York, Dec 26 - The human rights commissioner of the UN Friday expressed concern about the 11-year prison term handed down to a prominent Chinese dissident.

"The conviction and extremely harsh sentencing of Liu Xiabo mark a further severe restriction on the scope of freedom of expression in China," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement.

Pillay called the sentencing the latest example of a crackdown on human rights in China.

New Delhi, Dec 21- In an effort to harness the energy, imagination and initiative of the world's young denizens in overcoming the challenges facing humanity, the United Nations (UN) has declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth, starting Aug 12.

"The International Year is about advancing the full and effective participation of youth in all aspects of society," UN Focal Point on Youth, Nicola Shepherd, said in a statement Monday.

Kathmandu, Dec 21 - An alarmed UN called for restraint as the general strike enforced by Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas entered the second day Monday amidst reports of widespread violence.

Police said 72 protesters were arrested and almost an equal number of people, including security forces, injured while more than a dozen vehicles were vandalised and shops and industries attacked.

Kabul, Dec. 17 : A top UN official in Afghanistan had proposed a plan to replace President Hamid Karzai with a more Washington-friendly figure three months ago – when the widespread fraud in the presidential election was becoming clear.

The top UN official in Kabul, Norwegian Kai Eide, has revealed that his deputy, American Peter W. Galbraith, proposed that he would begin with “a secret mission to Washington.”

Copenhagen, Dec 16 - Financing will be the key to success at the climate summit, particularly for the world's poorest countries, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said here.

Opening the High Level Segment of the Dec 7-18 summit where around 120 heads of state and government are scheduled to attend, Ban welcomed the Copenhagen Launch Fund by which rich countries will pay $10 billion a year for the next three years to help poor nations cope with climate change effects.