DPPA
Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs

News from our Missions

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan SG: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure for me to have a brief press stakeout and I am very pleased to visit Central Asia, starting from Turkmenistan. I am very impressed by what…
1 April 2010 - The traditional annual “Narinj Gul” or Orange Blossom Festival has been marked in Jalalabad today. More than ten thousand people joined the event which has celebrated Afghan poetry and writing for more than 60…
KABUL - Today UNODC releases its first-ever Afghanistan Cannabis Survey showing that the world’s biggest producer of opium is also a major producer of cannabis. Full report Way down from the earlier figure of 70,000 hectares…
31 March 2010 - At the release of the first “Afghanistan Cannabis Survey” by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura…
31 March 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, has expressed his condolences over and condemned an attack on the office of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in…