News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
New York – Highlighting that the Colombian peace process faced and continues to face a range of challenges but also offers “solid” opportunities, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the country today…
Bogotá - The Regional Office of the tripartite Monitoring and Verification Mechanism in Florencia, department of Caquetá, is advancing the verification of possible clashes between two armed groups that took place in the…
Riyadh- The UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed concluded today a three day visit to Riyadh where he met with Saudi and Yemeni officials.The Envoy briefed the diplomatic corps on the latest developments in the…
HERAT - Addressing residents of Herat in a series of televised UN events, religious scholars emphasized the critical importance of institutionalizing the principles of peace at all levels of provincial society, from the…
Espen Barth Eide, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Cyprus: Thank you, good afternoon, as you know, we have just started the Cyprus talks here in Geneva. This is a continuation of the bi-communal…
GENEVA, 9 January 2017 - The Greek Cypriot leader, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Mustafa Akıncı, resumed the Cyprus Talks at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 9 January 2017. The leaders were…
NEW YORK - “ Where the rules are silent women are not usually considered” – Jessie Street, Australia’s only female delegate to the United Nations Founding conference, 1945. The Group of Friends for Gender Parity, a coalition…
KHOST - It is critically important for young Afghans to take initiative in helping their communities move forward politically, economically and socially, said panellists in a televised UN-backed debate in the eastern province…
In a first for Libya, solar power panels have been installed at the Abu Sleem Accidents and Emergency hospital in the capital Tripoli to offer steady electricity for the hospital’s Intensive Care unit. Similar installations…
Somalia’s landmark electoral process has dominated discussions in public places across the Horn of Africa country over the past few months, as Somalis examine the democratic progress the country has made after years of civil…
HERAT - The critical importance of ending gender-based violence was at the centre of a UN-backed information campaign conducted through the end of 2016 in Afghanistan’s western provinces of Herat, Ghor, Badghis and Farah. The…