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The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States and the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon     Building on progress from their October 14 meeting, on October 28 and 29 representatives from the governments of Israel and Lebanon held productive…

MEDIA NOTE November 11, 2020 Joint Statement on the Israel-Lebanon Maritime Talks The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States and the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Today, representatives from the governments of Israel and Lebanon held…

On 17 November, Mr. Ján Kubiš, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, and Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific briefed the United Nations Security Council virtually on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701…

THE UNITED NATIONS, THE SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE TASKFORCE AND THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR LEBANESE WOMEN LAUNCH A 16-DAY CAMPAIGN AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, 25 November 2020 (United Nations, SGBV TF, NCLW) - Today begins the global 16 Days of Activism against…

The International Support Group for Lebanon notes with growing concern the worsening social and economic crisis in Lebanon and laments the continued delays to the formation of a new government capable of urgently delivering on needed reforms and of countering the deepening distress of the Lebanese…

Four months after the tragic August 4 explosion that rocked the Port of Beirut, the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank Group (WBG) launched today, in a virtual press conference, a landmark ‘people-centered’ response plan to help Lebanon address the urgent needs of the…

The Secretary-General takes note of today’s delivery by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon of the sentencing decision of Mr. Salim Jamil Ayyash to five concurrent sentences of life imprisonment. On 18 August 2020, Mr. Ayyash was convicted in relation to the 14 February 2005 attack in Beirut that…

( Beirut, LEBANON) 18 December 2020 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today published the key findings of the 2020 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (VASyR). The economic downturn, steep…

The Secretary-General takes note of the verdict of 22 December by Lebanon’s Permanent Military Court convicting Mr. Mahmoud Bazzi and sentencing him to 15 years for the kidnapping and killing of two United Nations peacekeepers and causing serious injury to a third peacekeeper in April 1980. The…

Secretary-General appoints Mr. Ján Kubiš of Slovakia as his Special Envoy on Libya and Head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Ján Kubiš of Slovakia as his Special Envoy on Libya and Head of the United…

UN Says Killing of Lokman Slim is a Loss for Lebanon Beirut, Lebanon 4 February 2021 Najat Rochdi, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, today expressed her shock and sadness over the assassination of Lebanese activist and publicist Lokman Slim. Ms…

ESCWA: Lebanon's Formal Private Sector - The Bitter Reality of 2020 Beirut, 2 February 2021--Since 2019, the Lebanese economy is in free fall, a dramatic situation which was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and last summer’s Beirut Port explosion. A new policy brief entitled " Lebanon’s…