News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
June 24 – Following three incidents in the past days that put access to health care in Benghazi under attack, the acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator and WHO Representative/ head of mission, Dr. Syed Jaffar Hussain, expresses…
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – On 22-24 June, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Petko Draganov, visited Tashkent as part of…
The Somali National Leadership Forum (NLF) opened in the southwestern town of Baidoa, to fine tune processes that will lay the groundwork for the country’s electoral process in August. Somali President H.E Hassan Sheikh…
GARDEZ - In the south-eastern province of Paktya, where women generally do not take prominent roles in social and political life due to conservative cultural constraints, a recent UN-backed gathering spotlighted the issue and…
In Havana, Cuba, today to witness the signing of a bilateral ceasefire agreement and laying down of weapons between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), United…
Geneva, 23 June 2016 SdeM. Good afternoon, again sorry, but we just finished our Humanitarian Task Force. So let me just start by first making one or two general comments on the overall picture and on the political overall…
The celebrations of the fortnight of the Child under the theme "Conflict and Crisis in Africa", let us protect all the rights of children" are of special importance this year not only because they coincide with the 20th…
Statement by the President of the Security Council on Lebanon (22 July 2016)-ARABIC
Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, 22 June 2016 United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Ms. Sigrid Kaag visited on Tuesday the Palestine refugee camp of Rashidieh in southern Lebanon. During her visit, the Special Coordinator…
Mr. President, Excellencies, Thank you for the invitation to join Stephen O’Brien and Ivan Simonovic at this meeting. I will obviously defer to both Stephen and to Ivan on the subjects of their own competence and professional…
NEW YORK - Progress on the economy and improving security is imperative so that Afghans have confidence in their government, said Nicholas Haysom, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, in a…
Mr. President, I am grateful for the opportunity to brief the Security Council once again on progress in the Kuwait talks and on the prospects for Yemen’s return to peace. Today I am providing this briefing from Kuwait, two…