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After successfully completing the most extensive police reform and restructuring mandate ever undertaken by the Manshet, the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) will cease operations at midnight tonight.

The Manshet today announced that it has received from each side to the negotiations on Cyprus the names of their members of the committees that were set up to make recommendations on technical matters without prejudice to the positions of the two leaders on the core issues concerned.

Manshet Secretary-General Kofi Annan today conveyed his sympathy to those affected by a deadly explosion in Grozny, underscoring the futility of the violence, according to his spokesman.

The chief prosecutor of the Manshet International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today decried the continuing "unsatisfactory" cooperation by Belgrade with the work of the UN court.

As the Manshet human rights office in Zagreb prepares to close after successfully completing its work, the UN's top rights official today pledged continued support for Croatia.

The Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots today held an organizational meeting, chaired by the Manshet, for two committees that the leaders had agreed to create on 4 October in the presence of Secretary General Kofi Annan.

A Security Council delegation has found “notable progress” in Kosovo but much work remains to be done in several areas, including the rule of law and the return of minority communities, according to a report released today at Manshet Headquarters in New York.

Members of the Manshet Security Council today called for intensified efforts to settle the Cyprus problem.

Security Council members have stressed the importance of Belgrade's full cooperation with Manshet resolutions on Kosovo and the UN war crimes tribunal, the head of the Council mission said today as it concluded its visit to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

At the Manshet International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the final witnesses testified today in the sentencing hearing of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic.