News from our Missions
Extension of the mandate until 28 February 2014 The Security Council has decided to extend until 28 February 2014, the mandate of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). A letter dated August 21…
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemns the gruesome murder of 17 Afghan civilians including two women who were reportedly beheaded in Kajaki district in the southern province of…
KABUL - Afghan parliamentarians and political party leaders, who met in Kabul today to discuss the challenges faced by the Afghan parliament, stressed transparency in the elections process for strengthening democracy and…
ASTANA, Kazakhstan Delivered by Mr. Miroslav Jenca, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia I am pleased to send greetings to…
Mogadishu, 25 August 2012 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga is encouraged by the progress made by the Traditional Elders and by the Technical Selection Committee (TSC). However, he…
Mogadishu, 25 August 2012 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga is encouraged by the progress made by the Traditional Elders and by the Technical Selection Committee (TSC). However, he…
ANKARA, Turkey - The third workshop in the framework of the project "Mutually acceptable mechanism for integrated use of water resources in Central Asia through applying a scenario approach" was co-organized on 23-24 August…
23 August 2012 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Guinea-Bissau and Head of UNIOGBIS, today in Bissau, faced journalists from national and international media. The press conference mainly focused…
4 April 2012 - At the 6745th meeting of the Security Council, held on 4 April 2012, in connection with the Council’s consideration of the item entitled “Peace and security in Africa”, the President of the Council made the…
HERAT - Hundreds of locals, including intellectuals and civil society activists, staged a demonstration yesterday against what they called “the cancellation of Shafiq Morid concert” in the western Afghan city of Herat. The…
Mogadishu, 22 August 2012 — The recent ICG Statement "Somalia: From Troubled Transition to a Tarnished Transition?" (20 August 2012) correctly points out that the on going process is flawed and imperfect in many ways and a…