Tbilisi/Geneva  - Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees arrived in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Tuesday to begin a four-day mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation to assess the humanitarian situation in the region.

United Nations, Aug 19: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is said to be ready to intervene for resolving the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, provided both India and Pakistan agree to his role.

US spokesman Farhan Haq said this here last evening while addressing press persons.

“Our good offices are always available as long as they are agreed to by both or all the parties to conflict,” the Daily Times quoted Haq as saying.

Tehran - The chief inspector of the United Nations nuclear watchdog arrived Monday in Tehran to hold talks with officials of the Iranian Atomic Organization to Tehran, the ISNA news agency reported.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) chief inspector, Olli Heinonen, is in Tehran to follow up on last week's negotiations with the head of the Iranian Atomic Organization, Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, ISNA reported.

Tehran termed the two-day talks last week as "constructive" but refrained from saying whether they also opened up perspectives for a breakthrough in the nuclear dispute.

Yangon - UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Myanmar Monday for a five-day visit that aims to pressure the ruling military junta to speed up democratic reforms, address human rights and free political prisoners.

The visit is Gambari's fourth since last year to Myanmar, also known as Burma, where he has been handed a mandate by the United Nations to deal with the country's military regime in addressing international concerns about human rights violations, slow-paced political reforms and the ongoing detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hundreds of other political prisoners.

The State Peace and Development Council, as Myanmar's junta calls itself, has shown little willingness to comply with Gambari's overall mission.

Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded that Russian troops withdraw "without delay" from Georgia, adding that "this point is not negotiable in my eyes."

In an article to appear in Le Figaro newspaper Monday, Sarkozy said he would convene a special European Union summit if Russia failed to remove its military troops that entered Georgia on and after August 7.

"If this clause of the ceasefire accord is not applied rapidly and totally, I would summon an extraordinary European Council to decide what consequences to draw," the article said.

New York - Unit