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The Secretary-General message on United Nations Day
We are living through a period of profound turmoil, transition and transformation. Insecurity, inequality and intolerance are spreading. Global and national institutions are being put to the test. With so much at stake, the United Nations must keep pace across the spectrum of its activities – peace…
"Let's not accept another lost generation of Roma" - UN experts
GENEVA (5 April 2012) – “The time for action is now,” said a group of seven United Nations human rights experts on International Roma Day*. “We should not accept yet another lost generation of Roma girls and boys whose only expectations are lives of poverty, discrimination and exclusion and whose…
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Statements UN Security Council
Security Council, 69th year : 7257th meeting, Friday, 29 August 2014, New York Statement by H.E. Mr. Ivica Dacic, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia.pdf Statement by Mr. Enver Hoxhaj.pdf
Statements to the UN Security Council
Security Council Debate on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 7108th meeting. Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo ( S/2014/68).
29 November 2011 - Address by UNMIK SRSG Farid Zarif to the Security Council
Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The report before you details UNMIK’s activities from 16 July to 15 October 2011. Since my last briefing to you on 30 August, the Council has met twice, on 15 and 28 September, and has been briefed on the situation in the north of Kosovo, which…
Head of the Liaison Office of Romania visits UNMIK
05 November 2013 – Pristina, Head of the Liaison Office of Romania in Pristina, Mr. Silviu Emanuel Dragoicea met with SRSG Farid Zarif and DSRSG Robert Sorenson in UNMIK MHQ. Head of the Liaison Office of Romania visits UNMIK 05 November 2013 – Pristina, Head of the Liaison Office of Romania in…
UNMIK chief attends award ceremony for Journalism Poverty Prize 2014
UNMIK chief attends award ceremony for Journalism Poverty Prize 2014 23 October 2014 – Today, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, attended an award ceremony for this year’s Journalism Poverty Prize, at the Kosovo Museum in Pristina. Kosovo reporters…
SRSG Farid Zarif Interview on Radio Dukagjini (Pristina)
Journalist: Mr. Zarif, you have visited the north, what is your impression? Will local Serbs accept integrated border management? It’s mentioned also in the Six Point Plan of Ban Ki-Moon, the integrated border management. SRSG: My visits to the north were not for the purpose of discussing the…
Transcript of SRSG interview with AP
Transcript of SRSG interview with AP Friday 23 March 2012 The letter asked UNMIK to organize local elections in Kosovo in conformity with Resolution 1244 of the United Nations Security Council. In my reply to the Serbian authorities, I acknowledged their commitment to the fact that any elections…