The Secretary-General condemns the abhorrent attack carried out on 12 June in Idlib city, Syria, which hit a vegetable market and the only bakery in the area. The apparent air strike took place while a ceasefire stipulated in…

FARAH - Providing Afghan women with equal access to entrepreneurial funding mechanisms was the focus of a lively UN-backed debate in the sparsely populated western province of Farah. Some two dozen participants, including…

KABUL - On behalf of the United Nations in Afghanistan, I condemn the attack targeting civilians gathered for Friday prayers at the Hisarak Jami Mosque in Rodat district, Nangarhar province. The attack killed at least three…

GARDEZ - To promote participatory and accountable governance in the interest of Afghanistan’s development, participants at a UN-backed event in the capital of the southeastern Paktya province launched a civil society…

My apologies but I just finished a long and intense discussion at the Humanitarian Taskforce and in view of the fact that there are so many issues coming up and being discussed, I had to stay until the end, of course, so my…

08 June 2016 - The Greek Cypriot leader, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Mustafa Akıncı, met under the auspices of the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General (SASG) Mr. Espen Barth Eide, on…

Nairobi, 7 June 2016 - Government delegations from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, hosts to over 3.4 million displaced persons from the Great Lakes region, met on 6-7 June…

KANDAHAR - More female judges, prosecutors and defence attorneys are needed in Kandahar, said panellists at a televised debate backed by the United Nations. An audience of more than 80 university students attended the debate…

Nairobi, 7 June 2016 - Government delegations from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, hosts to over 3.4 million displaced persons from the Great Lakes region, met on 6-7 June…

Check against delivery Statement of SRSG Martin Kobler to the Security Council 6 June 2016 Merci Monsieur le Président. Thank you, Mr. President. Monsieur le Président, Membres distingués du Conseil, Vous avez reçu le dernier…

In his capacity as Chairman of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission (CNMC), the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, chaired today in Yaoundé…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, congratulates the Libyans on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. He extends his warmest…