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Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba (Equatorial Guinea), as Chairman of the Guinea-Bissau Sanctions Committee in 2048, and Ambassador Mauro Vieira (Brazil), Chair of the Guinea-Bissau Peacebuilding Commission a brief communication. Prime Minister Aristides Gomes is due to represent his country at the…

RESG Viegas described the efforts made to raise more funds for the 18 november elections, to support the drafting of a Stability Pact, to promote the participation of women and to assist the authorities in combating transnational organized crime in conjunction with UNODC. Members of the UN Security…

José Viegas Filho, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau and the head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the country (UNIOGBIS) called for sustained international support for the West African nation. “I therefore urge all international partners to maintain…

With the approval of this law, Guinea-Bissau became part of the group of more than 80 countries that adopted corrective and temporary measures to advance women's participation in politics and decision-making. Until moment of writing, the referred Parity Law is being reviewed by Specialized…

“The holding of timely and credible elections is of paramount importance at this juncture,” said José Viegas Filho, Special Representative of the Secretary‑General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea‑Bissau Bissau (UNIOGBIS). Citing an overall calm situation in…

We are impressed, as UN civil servants, to be able to witness this encouraging trend towards women’s empowerment first hand. The draft law is the result of hard work by Bissau-Guineans which started with the Canchungo Declaration in 2014 which advocated for the promotion of gender equality through…

This week the Angolan government also transferred another US $ 1 million to the electoral support fund. However, Guineans continue to doubt whether the elections will take place on 18 November. In April 2018, President José Mário Vaz marked the holding of legislative elections on November 18 at an…

"I am the UN SG Representative here in Guinea-Bissau. As you know we were asked to support the elections. So, I came here to see by myself if everything is going well, how is the registration process going,” he told them. He was presented how the whole process works amidst people standing in queues…

In Guinea-Bissau, the date was commemorated in Nhinté village in the Cacheu region, in the presence of the UN Organization for Food and agriculture (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) Representatives, the Minister of Agriculture and his technicians. The event aimed at supporting and sensitizing…

In his speech, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG), Mr. José Viegas Filho emphasized the importance for the country to hold free, fair and credible elections this year. Acknowledging that there were delays in the preparation of elections that are scheduled to take place on…

The objective was to establish a common understanding on the scale and urgency of combating transnational organized crime and the identification of short-term measures that could support the effective and efficient development and implementation of a National Plan to Combat Transnational Organized…

The UNPAF review is "an expression of the common will of the two parties to further strengthen their partnership to break the vicious circle of political instability and poverty, in which the country has plunged for more than three decades," both partners said. While recognizing the contribution of…