News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
22 June 2010 - The United Nations Security Council held a series of meetings in Kabul today, its first full day since arriving in Afghanistan in the evening of 22 June. The 15-member delegation had a two-hour meeting with…
21 June 2010 - The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) opened the first human rights centre for students of Herat University last week. During the inauguration Dr Sima Samar, AIHRC Country Director, said…
UN News Centre (New York) 21 June 2010 - Members of the Security Council arrived today in Kabul to review progress made by the Afghan Government with assistance from the international community, and to demonstrate their…
New York, 18 June 2010 Mr. President, I would like to thank the Council, collectively and on an individual level, for your renewed and increased attention to the "question of Somalia". As I have noted earlier, Somalia is a…
Nairobi, 10 June 2010 – As an immediate follow up of the Istanbul conference on Somalia, on 8 June 2010, UN Special Representative, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, along with representatives of the Islamic Development Bank and Turkey…
21 June 2010 - The 15-member United Nations Security Council today arrived in Kabul to assess the situation in the lead-up to the Security Council debate on Afghanistan scheduled for late June. The Security Council’s visit is…
KABUL - A survey on Drug Use in Afghanistan, issued today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, shows that around one million Afghans (age 15-64)…
21 June 2010 - A survey on Drug Use in Afghanistan, issued today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, shows that around one million Afghans (age 15…
20 June 2010 - The number of refugees voluntarily returning home to Afghanistan in 2010 reached the 70,000 mark this week. With two and a half months of the peak repatriation period still to run, this year’s overall figure…
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia Ambassador Miroslav Jenca participated in the daily press briefing by the Office of the…
