News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
New York/Vienna 16 December 2010 - (UNODC) - A multi-agency programme launched today in New York will help curb drug trafficking and organized crime in West Africa, a hub for cocaine trafficking from Latin America to Europe…
Communiqué of the 3 rd Plenary Meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia.
Communiqué of the Somali Business Community (SBC) Workshop.
15 December 2010 -- "The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the continuing political stalemate in Côte d'Ivoire. The situation is taking a worrying turn with unfolding events that could lead to widespread violence,"…
KABUL - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Staffan de Mistura learned with profound sadness of the sudden and untimely death of Richard Holbrooke. Ambassador Holbrooke has been a friend of the United Nations…
14 December 2010 - The United Nations in Guinea-Bissau is ready to continue providing support to the country's National Conference process, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General today said as he linked the…
14 December 2010 - The United Nations (UN) refugee agency, UNHCR, has built 200,000 houses across Afghanistan for returning refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) since 2002. This longstanding reintegration…
Communiqué of the 15 th Meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia. Rome, 10 June 2009
KHOST- Government officials in Khost urged ulemas in the province to explain and educate the public in women’s rights, through the teachings and principles of Islam. This call by the director of women’s affairs took place at…
12 December 2010 - On Saturday 11 December, on the outskirts of Kabul, Minister of Education, Farooq Wardak and Japan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Shigeyuki Hiroki, inaugurated the newly-constructed Mohamed Mussa Shafiq high…
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan Delivered by Mr. B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs President Berdimuhamedov, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured to convey my greetings to all those gathered to…