News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
TASHKENT/BUKHARA, Uzbekistan The first meeting of Central Asian Expert Forum concluded today in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. The event was co-organized by UNRCCA and the Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of…
With his first planned trip to a regional centre coinciding with tensions between the federal and state governments, the new United Nations envoy to Somalia encouraged Somalis to work together to find their own solutions to…
Tripoli, 29 October 2018 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemns the deadly attack on al-Foqha, a town in central Libya, in what local authorities say was a brutal act of revenge conducted by…
During his visit to Washington D.C., the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths gave an exclusive interview to Al Arabiya TV Program “The Diplomatic Avenue”. Griffiths stressed the importance of…
East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, Tanzania, 29th October 2018: The 5th Round of the Inter-Burundi Dialogue bringing together political parties and political actors in the Burundian conflict concluded on 29 October…
KABUL - With voting in parliamentary elections largely complete following yesterday’s delayed vote in Kandahar, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) urges the country’s electoral authorities to safeguard the…
In his speech, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG), Mr. José Viegas Filho emphasized the importance for the country to hold free, fair and credible elections this year. Acknowledging that there were…
Mogadishu - For some people, technology and its applications in modern-day society are not what comes to mind when thinking of Somalia. Efforts are underway to change that. In the country’s capital, hundreds of people – from…
NICOSIA, 26 October 2018 – Today the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Mustafa Akıncı, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, met at the Chief of Mission residence in the United Nations Protected Area (UNPA) under…
Arabic Querido Señor Presidente, Le agradezco mucho por esta oportunidad desde Beirut. I would take this opportunity to update you and Members of the Council since my briefing, which took place last week in New York. Today, I…
This United Nations Day is special in that the UN celebrates it inside Libya, alongside the Libyan people. My colleagues and I have spent the past year living in Tripoli, engaged with interlocutors in cities across the…
Call for Applications United Nations Somalia - Youth Advisory Board! Opportunity for Somali Youth! Somalia is one of the youngest countries in the world, with more than 4.6 million people between the ages of 15 and 35…