New York – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations in October 2014 to review the current state of UN peace operations.The Panel consisted of 16 members…

New York – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations in October 2014 to review the current state of UN peace operations.The Panel consisted of 16 members…

Tunis- The Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in collaboration with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), recently conducted two workshops on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Libya response. The workshops…

NEW YORK - The latest quarterly report on the situation in Afghanistan and the activities of the United Nations in the country is available now. The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas…

Tunis, Tunisia: The United Nations Mine Actions Service (UNMAS) and Arms and Ammunition Advisory Section (AAAS) of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) have celebrated an Awards and Graduation Ceremony for the…

14 June 2015 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Bernardino Leon, strongly condemns the storming of the Tunisian Consulate in the…

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - More than 100 people gathered in Mazar-i-Sharif, in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, to discuss electoral issues and form a new regional civil society network designed to address them. Participants at…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan On 13 June, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the office of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat within the framework of his official visit to…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan It is a great pleasure to meet you. Thank you for your taking the time. I am also very happy to visit this UNRCCA [United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia] office after…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan Sizing Bilen Dushushýanyma Örän Shat (I am glad to be with all of you) Thank you for inviting me to the International University for Humanities and Development. I am grateful for this recognition. I…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan Salam Aleikum. I would like to first of all thank His Excellency President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the people of Turkmenistan for their warm welcome and hospitality. I want to congratulate the…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - On 13 June, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the office of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat within the framework of his official visit to…