News from our Missions
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan
New York, 5 April 2012 -The Secretary-General welcomes the Security Council’s strong condemnation of the forcible seizure of power in Mali and its renewed call for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule in the…
NEW YORK - United Nations officials today stressed the importance of providing adequate health services to older citizens and called on countries to commit resources to help their ageing populations lead a healthy and active…
Tripoli, 4 April 2012 – The United Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expresses its deep concern over the recent upsurge of violence around the towns of Zuwara, al-Jumail and Regdalin and reports of growing casualties. UNSMIL…
Mogadishu, 4 April 2012 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga expressed his outrage at the suicide attack at Mogadishu's National Theatre during a celebratory ceremony today, which…
KABUL - The Afghan Minister of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR), H.E. Dr. Jamaher Anwari and Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ambassador William Lacy Swing today signed a Memorandum of…
KABUL - Today the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) and the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) celebrated the World Water Day in the conference hall of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW). International World Water…
KABUL - WHO and the Afghanistan Stop TB Partnership suggested an urgent need for studies to explore why Afghanistan is the world’s only country with higher rates of tuberculosis (TB) among women than among men. About 66% of…
Seoul, 26 March 2012 - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with the two candidates in yesterday’s Presidential run-off elections in Senegal, Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal, and Mr. Macky…
SHEBERGHAN - Jan Kubis, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, spoke at the inauguration of a UNAMA office in Sheberghan. Mr. Kubis said that the UN had been working in support of the people of…
Tripoli 29 March, 2012 - The United Nation Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomes the securing of the cease-fire brokered locally last night in Sabha. Reports from the Sabha Medical Center indicate that the fighting over…
