News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
The Women's Support and Empowerment Unit for the Presidency Council held its first coordination meeting today, in the Prime Minister's Office in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with a number of representatives of embassies in in…
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan On 6 February 2019, in Ashgabat, SRSG Natalia Gherman met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was in Turkmenistan on an official visit. The meeting provided a good opportunity to discuss…
Houthi and Government of Yemen representatives of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) continued to meet on 4 and 5 February aboard a United Nations vessel berthed in the Port of Hudaydah. The parties have engaged in…
The National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism was adopted on 27 March 2018. The Strategy provides the national objectives, policies and plans to prevent violent extremism in the short-, medium- and long-term. Led by…
The East African Community has acknowledged receipt of a report on the stalled Burundi peace talks holding under aegis of the regional bloc.
The Supervisory Committee on the implementation of the prisoner exchange agreement is scheduled to reconvene in Amman tomorrow, 5 February. The Committee includes representatives of the Government of Yemen and Ansar Allah…
HELMAND - Community leaders from the Nawa and Nadali districts of Helmand province came together to discuss local communities’ role in the broader peace process, part of a series of peace dialogues organized across…
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan Today, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Asia, Head of UNRCCA, Natalia Gherman hosted a meeting with Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of…
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Libya, Ghassan Salame, met with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States(LAS), today in Cairo to discuss the latest developments in…
Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the formation of a new Government in Lebanon The Secretary-General welcomes the announcement of the formation of a new Government of Lebanon. He…
The Special Representative of the Secretary – General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, concluded on Thursday 31 January a two-week pre-electoral mission to…
Mogadishu - The United Nations top political official concluded a two-day visit to Somalia where she held discussions with the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and women representatives of the country’s civil society…