On 28 Sep 2020, in Hurghada, Egypt, military and police teams from eastern and western Libya met and began security and military talks, in the framework of the ongoing (5+5) Joint Military Commission talks, with the…
Kinshasa, 28 September 2020 – Special Envoy Huang Xia met on 28 September in Kinshasa with Guillaume Manjolo, Congolese Minister of International Cooperation, Regional Integration and the Francophony. The two officials…
The Secretary-General welcomes today’s agreement between the parties to the Yemen conflict to release immediately 1,081 individuals who had been detained in connection with the conflict. The Secretary-General urges the…
As delivered Switzerland, 27 September 2020 Shaikh Hadi, Abu Hilal, Esteemed members of the delegations, My co-chair Fabrizio, Our host Mr. Olivier Puchard, I would like to say thank you to all our Yemeni friends here for…
Glion, Switzerland - 27 September 2020 - Delegates representing the Government of Yemen and Ansar Allah have agreed to immediately release a first group of 1,081 conflict-related detainees and prisoners, in accordance with…
The African country is continuing on a path of political transition following the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. “Sudan, with the blood of its martyrs, has gone through decades of tyranny, injustice and…
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- REMARKS TO HIGH-LEVEL ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AMBITION 24 September 2020 The world has a high fever and is burning up. Climate disruption is daily news – from devastating wildfires to record floods. The…
Mogadishu – With its key location along main international shipping routes and 3,300 kilometres of coastline, Somalia’s potential as a key maritime player came to the fore recently as it marked World Maritime Day. “The fact…
Tunis - On 23 September, Acting UN SRSG Stephanie Williams and the Ambassador-designate of the European Union to Libya, José Sabadell, as the rotating chair of the Economic Working Group (EWG) established by the Berlin…
Ambassadors met in person in the Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC) Chamber at UN Headquarters in New York, where they were briefed by UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo, and the head of UN Peacekeeping, Jean…
Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the situation in Sudan and on the planning for our new mission in Sudan - UNITAMS. Mister President, When I addressed the Council on Sudan in…
KABUL – High Council of National Reconciliation (HCNR) representatives were joined over the weekend by a group of Afghan youth and women from provinces around Kabul in a peace outreach event at which they presented a…