For Arabic version click here . Mr. President, 1. Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council following the fourth round of intra- Syrian talks that concluded in Geneva last Friday, 3 March 2017. I will be…

SG: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, thank you very much for your presence. I decided that I would make in Baidoa my first field visit of my tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations. And the reason…

BAGHLAN - The advocacy role of young Afghans in working with government to fight corruption and promote women’s equality in the workplace was the focus of an open debate and televised roundtable discussion in north-eastern…

Hearing the heart-wrenching stories of desperate families displaced in Somalia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today urged a massive scale up in international support to avert a famine in the drought…

7 March 2017 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, condemns the military escalation in Libya’s Oil Crescent region which…

ALMATY, Kazakhstan-- On 6-7 March, Mirsolav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Petko Draganov, UN Special Representative and Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan – On 7 March, Mirsolav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Petko Draganov, UN Special Representative and Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia…

LAGHMAN - In a UN-backed three-day Peace Jirga, community leaders from three districts of Afghanistan’s east said they are committed to working with opposing groups to find peaceful outcomes to the area’s conflicts. The focus…

Luul Issack Adan brightens up when speaking about her role as a champion for peace and women’s empowerment in Somalia’s Interim South West State. The 33-year-old activist is the role model of many, because of her outstanding…

As a severe drought deepens in Somalia, the risk of famine is looming in the long-troubled country, with about half the population in need of some form of assistance, according to an assessment by United Nations agencies and…

Ridwan Abdi Iman was born in the village of Farjana Kismayo, twenty five years ago when the first wave of Somalis began fleeing across the border into neighbouring countries to escape the chaos caused by the collapse of the…

I just had a productive and constructive meeting with Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. It was an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in Lebanon and the ongoing cooperation between the United Nations and Lebanon…