Individuals named in the report include a former French UN ambassador, Jean-Bernard Merrimee, who has admitted receiving one oil allocation only.

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The event was attended by French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault , UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet, former President of Finland Tarja Halonen, Director-General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui.

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Khartoum's veto led Jean-Marie Guehenno, the UN undersecretary for peacekeeping to warn last month that the entire peacekeeping mission may have to be aborted.

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But, says Jean-Luc Lemahieu, head of the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Kabul, time is something Afghanistan does not have.

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"Traditionally, what we tend to argue is that the demand causes the supply, " says Jean-Luc Lemahieu, regional representative of the UN drugs agency UNODC - one of the few organisations working on drug eradication in Afghanistan.

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"I think the next few days are still indeed quite dangerous, " said Jean-Marie Guehenno, the French diplomat who heads the UN's peacekeeping operations.

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The latest story is the killing of 23-year-old Billie Jean Hayworth and her fiance Billy Clay Payne, after Hayworth un-friended 30-year-old Jenelle Potter on Facebook.

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Jean-Francis Zinsou, Permanent Representative of Benin to the UN, highlighted the need for globalized research, which is results-driven and focuses on the urgent problems that humanity currently faces.

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The UN originally deployed the force in 2004 to stabilise the country during the civil unrest that followed the ejection of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a populist former priest, from the presidency.

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