News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Security Council Press Statement on Lebanon 8 February 2019 The members of the Security Council welcomed the announcement on 31 January 2019 of the formation of a national unity government in Lebanon, and congratulated Prime…
NILI - An increased number of women in the Central Highlands area of Daikundi are taking up positions in public life, working as civil servants and enjoying success in parliamentary elections. These developments are the…
SRSG Hanna Tetteh continues to engage with representatives of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) here in Addis Ababa. Today, she met with H.E. Ambassador George S. W. Patten of Liberia to Ethiopia. SRSG…
Tripoli, 5 February 2019 – Seven years after the revolution, hundreds of thousands of people across Libya, live in dire conditions. In a bid to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs for 552,000 most vulnerable people…
6 February 2019 Female genital mutilation is an abhorrent human rights violation affecting women and girls around the world. It denies them their dignity, endangers their health and causes needless pain and suffering, even…
The Women's Support and Empowerment Unit for the Presidency Council held its first coordination meeting today, in the Prime Minister's Office in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with a number of representatives of embassies in in…
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan On 6 February 2019, in Ashgabat, SRSG Natalia Gherman met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was in Turkmenistan on an official visit. The meeting provided a good opportunity to discuss…
Houthi and Government of Yemen representatives of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) continued to meet on 4 and 5 February aboard a United Nations vessel berthed in the Port of Hudaydah. The parties have engaged in…
The National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism was adopted on 27 March 2018. The Strategy provides the national objectives, policies and plans to prevent violent extremism in the short-, medium- and long-term. Led by…
The East African Community has acknowledged receipt of a report on the stalled Burundi peace talks holding under aegis of the regional bloc.
The Supervisory Committee on the implementation of the prisoner exchange agreement is scheduled to reconvene in Amman tomorrow, 5 February. The Committee includes representatives of the Government of Yemen and Ansar Allah…
HELMAND - Community leaders from the Nawa and Nadali districts of Helmand province came together to discuss local communities’ role in the broader peace process, part of a series of peace dialogues organized across…