6 April 2011 - Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather, today, to mourn our colleagues. The roster of the fallen, in recent days, has been shocking and profoundly sad. We stand in solidarity with their friends and families, united in…
KABUL - On 28 October 2009, attackers stormed the Bakhtar guest house in Kabul killing five United Nations staff as part of a plan to disrupt the presidential election runoff. We remember: Jossie Esto, UNDP electoral…
Bujumbura, April 05, 2011_ Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message on the seventeenth Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda, observed 7 April: Today, we honour the memory of more than 800,000 people murdered…
3 April, Kabul - Afghanistan experienced its third day of protests in the wake of the burning of the Koran two weeks ago by a US pastor in Florida. Sunday’s protests occurred in many provinces and cities across the country…
4 April 2011 - I am very concerned about developments in Côte d’Ivoire. The security situation has deteriorated dramatically over the past days with fighting having escalated between forces loyal to President Ouattara and…
Nairobi, 01 April 2011 – Following a meeting held today with a core group of regional and international partners and stakeholders, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General Ambassador Augustine P. Mahiga…
KABUL - Staffan de Mistura : I will start first speaking to the Afghan colleagues. I have just returned a few minutes ago from Mazar-e-Sharif. I was waiting at the airport to receive our dead colleagues, to be received in…
2 April 2011 - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with the Prime Minister of Nepal, H.E. Mr. Jhala Nath Khanal, and the Foreign Ministers of Norway, Sweden and Romania to express his deep condolences on the deaths…
2 April 2011 - The top UN envoy for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, today returned to Kabul from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, accompanying the bodies of seven colleagues killed in yesterday's attack on the UN's…
2 April 2011, Nairobi - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with H.E. Mr. Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan. The Secretary-General told President Karzai he was saddened and shocked by the attack on the UN…