New York – Expressing continued grave concern over piracy off the coast of Somalia despite a sharp decline in attacks, the Security Council today renewed for another year authorizations, first agreed in 2008, for…
It is very encouraging to come to the Security Council and to hear the absolute unanimity and unity of Council members with regard to Lebanon and the needs of Lebanon, the importance of meeting those needs, the importance of…
KABUL - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, spoke to members of the media at a Kabul press conference, detailing her assessment of the situation of Afghan women following a…
KABUL - Afghanistan registered record levels of opium poppy cultivation this year, with the illicit crop being cultivated in an estimated 224,000 hectares of land, according to a United Nations-backed survey released in the…
12 November 2014 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau -SRSG-, Miguel Trovoada, is heading to New York for high-level meetings on Guinea-Bissau.On 18 November, SRSG Trovoada will…
The Head of UNOCA deeply concerned The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, is deeply concerned about the impact of Boko…
Tripoli, 11 November 2014 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Bernardino Leon traveled to Tripoli on Tuesday 11 November 2014 as part of his efforts to listen to the views of the parties and various…
Your Excellency Mr President, the co-chair, Your Excellency Mr Prime Minister, Honourable Ministers, Members of Parliament, distinguished representatives from the Puntland, the Interim Jubba Administration, Benadir, Galmadug…
11 November 2014 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced yesterday the appointment of Cassam Uteem of Mauritius as his Special Envoy and Head of the United Nations Electoral Observation Mission in Burundi…
10 November 2014 - On Sunday 09 November, I embarked on another mission in Libya, to continue the consultations with the Libyan stakeholders on the way forward and how to put the political transition back on track. I met in…
Baidoa – The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Fatiha Serour, paid an official visit to Baidoa on 9 November. She assessed the implementation of a national programme for disengaged…
10 November 2014 - A team of the UN Strategic Assessment Mission (SAM), in the country since last week, visited over the weekend the city of Bafatá, east, accompanied by the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary…