News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, 05 January 2016 The Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, arrived in Riyadh yesterday evening as part of her ongoing consultations with regional stakeholders to discuss Lebanon’s stability…
The Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, expressed concern over the attack on an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) convoy in the Shebaa Farms area, and subsequent IDF shelling across the Blue Line into Lebanon. In…
KABUL - Students from Afghanistan and the rest the world are invited to take part in an essay competition that puts their language skills to the test - and may take them to a youth forum at UN Headquarters in New York. The…
A two-day national conference on Somalia media strategy development ended in Mogadishu today as participants reviewed and agreed on the implementation of a “Somali Media Development Strategy” for the next five years…
KABUL – The results of the Afghan People’s Dialogue on Peace process should be taken into account at tomorrow’s quadripartite peace meeting in Islamabad according to a key grouping of Afghan civil society. Representatives of…
A group of five international partners of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, - ECOWAS, CPLP, United Nations, European Union and African Union, - met today at the African Union Liaison Office in Bissau, to review the latest…
Special Envoy de Mistura concluded today his present round of regional consultations with meetings in Tehran. He had useful exchanges with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Amir…
08 January 2015 - The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a security training centre in Zliten, Libya on 7 January 2016, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries. The members of the…
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, had a useful meeting today in Damascus with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Walid Mouallem. In the meeting…
The Puntland Ministry of Information and the Media Association of Puntland (MAP), in collaboration with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), held a two-day workshop for local journalists in Garoowe on…
07 January 2016 - The Secretary-General condemns the deadly terrorist attack that took place today near a police base in Zliten, western Libya. He expresses his condolences to the many families of those who lost their lives…
Bossaso, - The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, officially inaugurated the upgraded international airport of Bossaso, Puntland today. Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Gaas) and…