News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
KABUL - A UN report released today on the torture and ill-treatment of conflict-related detainees in Government detention facilities shows some progress and welcomes the new administration’s commitment to accelerate its…
Mogadishu - The United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), United Kingdom and the United States of America have welcomed efforts by local elders and business people in…
Mogadishu – The United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), United Kingdom and the United States of America have welcomed efforts by local elders and business people in…
Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, 24 February 2015 Following media reports regarding links between the United Nations and an Organisation calling itself 'the International Human Rights Commission', the United Nations in Lebanon would…
Mogadishu – The United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), United Kingdom and the United States of America have welcomed efforts by local elders and business people in…
Mogadishu – The United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), United Kingdom and the United States of America have welcomed efforts by local elders and business people in…
Beirut, Lebanon Monday, 23 February 2015 The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag, met today with the Minister of Justice, Ashraf Rifi, and with the Minister of Industry, Hussein Hajj-Hassan…
JALALABAD - Despite security challenges, thousands of health workers fanned out across Afghanistan’s eastern provinces last week to administer life-saving polio drops to nearly one million children under age five, as part of…
HERAT - The Government of Afghanistan’s western Herat province presented last week a three-year plan, consisting of more than 1,000 development projects, to international donors.The US$504 million plan, developed with the…
New York, 20 February 2015 - The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the bomb attack in al-Qubbah in Libya on 20 February, claimed by an affiliate of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ Da’esh)…
TEHRAN - Nicholas Haysom, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met on Saturday in Tehran with Ibrahim Rahimpour, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Islamic Republic of Iran. Mr. Haysom is stressing…
New York - The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China): The members of the Security Council strongly condemn the attack on 20 February on the Central Hotel in…