Topic: Jan Eliasson

World leaders will meet at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday to discuss the large-scale movement of refugees and migrants.

The world was urged to abolish the death penalty Friday by a United Nations panel, noting the importance of political leadership to end capital punishment.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday urged de-escalation of the crisis in Ukraine as diplomatic talks in Paris failed to resolve the situation.

A group of armed men demanded UN Special Envoy Robert Serry leave Crimea, where he was on a fact-finding mission, immediately. Serry refused, and was unharmed.

Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov met Tuesday with United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson in Kiev.

A call for a peaceful resolution to conflicts in Central African Republic and South Sudan opened the African Union Assembly Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The number of child soldiers conscripted into conflict may be a barometer for the potential for genocide, the former chief of U.N. peacekeeping in Rwanda said.

Two members of the United Nations peacekeeping force in South Sudan were killed in an attack on a base, officials said Friday.

Washington will airlift African forces to the Central African Republic to help French troops put down the country's growing bloodshed, a defense spokesman said.

Jordan Friday was elected a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council by members of the General Assembly, the U.N. said.