News from our Missions
UN News Centre (New York) 21 June 2010 - Members of the Security Council arrived today in Kabul to review progress made by the Afghan Government with assistance from the international community, and to demonstrate their…
New York, 18 June 2010 Mr. President, I would like to thank the Council, collectively and on an individual level, for your renewed and increased attention to the "question of Somalia". As I have noted earlier, Somalia is a…
Nairobi, 10 June 2010 – As an immediate follow up of the Istanbul conference on Somalia, on 8 June 2010, UN Special Representative, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, along with representatives of the Islamic Development Bank and Turkey…
21 June 2010 - The 15-member United Nations Security Council today arrived in Kabul to assess the situation in the lead-up to the Security Council debate on Afghanistan scheduled for late June. The Security Council’s visit is…
KABUL - A survey on Drug Use in Afghanistan, issued today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, shows that around one million Afghans (age 15-64)…
21 June 2010 - A survey on Drug Use in Afghanistan, issued today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, shows that around one million Afghans (age 15…
20 June 2010 - The number of refugees voluntarily returning home to Afghanistan in 2010 reached the 70,000 mark this week. With two and a half months of the peak repatriation period still to run, this year’s overall figure…
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia Ambassador Miroslav Jenca participated in the daily press briefing by the Office of the…
New York, 18 June 2010 – SRSG briefed the Security Council members on Somalia. SRSG Ould-Abdallah, who is completing his tour of duty, seized the occasion to express his appreciation to Members of the Council and the UN…
17 June 2010 - The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in the northeast region recorded a total of 58 complaints during the first quarter of the Afghan year, and urged journalists to be vigilant in…