News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

7 May 2013 - Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister Rui Barros inaugurated today, a new Access-to-Justice Center in the eastern town of Bafatá in the company of the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Gana…

09 May 2013 - The mandate of the United Nations political mission in Guinea-Bissau, which last year underwent a military coup, should be adjusted to support a two-phase process for the full restoration of constitutional order and medium-term stability in the country, according to a report by…

16 May 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, met Prime Minister Rui de Barros on Thursday in Bissau as part of his plan to brief national authorities on his recent mission to New York and the UN Security Council's meeting on Guinea Bissau…

18 May 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, welcomed on Saturday in Bissau the efforts being made by the Guinean authorities to form a broad-based government.Speaking to the press after a meeting that Transitional President Serifo Nhamajo…

22 May 2013 - The United Nations Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations political mission in Guinea-Bissau to assist in finding solutions to the political and economic crisis being exacerbated by additional challenges posed by transnational crime, in particular drug…

25 May 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, was the guest of the "Global Observatory" on 23 May 2013. He was interviewed by Warren Hoge, Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (*), which publishes the Observatory. Below are…

06 June 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, expressed concern at the socio-economic situation in Guinea-Bissau when he addressed a seminar held on Thursday 6 June in Bissau to mark the launch of the 2013 Human Development Report (HDR)…

11 June 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, on Tuesday, 11 June 2013, visited the Raoul Follereau Hospital, a medical institution in Bissau run by an Italian not-for-profit organisation under an agreement with the Government of Guinea…

8 July 2013 - The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (ASG), Ivan Å imonovic arrived in Guinea-Bissau on 8 July, at the invitation of the transitional government, to attend Guinea-Bissau's first National Conference on Impunity, Justice and Human Rights and to conduct the…

10 July 2013 – The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (ASG), Ivan Šimonovic, attended on 10 July in Bissau, the opening of the first National Conference on Impunity, Justice and Human Rights.In his remarks, ASG Šimonovic said that “the human rights office’s presence in…

15 July 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, on Monday, 15 July 2013, met with the Transitional President, Serifo Nhamadjo to share with him preliminary conclusions of the electoral Needs Assessment Mission (NAM), present in the country…

02 September 2013 - The United Nations opened a field office in the northern town of São Domingos, Cacheu Region, on Sunday, 1 September 2013, with a view to enhancing its ability to provide assistance to its national partners at the regional level. "The development of the field office in Sao…