Kampala – Being a person with a disability in Somalia is not easy. Years of war and civil strife have meant that the country’s social services are still rebuilding, with the Somali authorities and civil society groups at the…
KABUL - Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Roza Otunbayeva issued a statement today marking International Day of the Girl (11 October). “In…
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, this week visited shelters housing persons displaced from southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut following the sharp escalation of…
Amman, 10 October 2024 - The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg met today in Moscow with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Vershinin. Mr. Grundberg expressed his profound…
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has welcomed discussions with Afghanistan’s de facto Office of Prison Administration which demonstrated a firm commitment for continued cooperation and…
The members of the Security Council welcomed the agreement reached between Libyan actors on the Central Bank of Libya and its endorsement by the House of Representative and High State Council. They called on all Libyan…
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomes the renewed efforts for the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement He trusts that the rapid response plan to accelerate the implementation of the Agreement will translate into…
9 October 2024 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues. It has been one year. One year since the cessation of hostilities across the Blue Line gave way to near-daily exchanges of fire. Exchanges of fire that…
(As Delivered) Mister President, (Switzerland) You may recall that in my last briefing to the Security Council on 20 August, I had focused extensively on unilateral measures by various Libyan sides and the instability they…
The nightmare in Gaza is now entering an atrocious, abominable second year. This has been a year of crises. Humanitarian crisis. Political crisis. Diplomatic crisis. And a moral crisis. Over the last year -- following the…