News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
I have been a few days here in Damascus. We have been meeting with the HTS leadership, we've been meeting with other armed factions, including representatives from the SNC, and we've been seeing representatives from the…
On behalf of the United Nations Office to the African Union, I would like to thank our esteemed partners and stakeholders for their continued support to the UN-AU partnership in promoting peace and security in Africa as a…
Today, United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert visited Tripoli in north Lebanon. At the Maronite Archdiocese in Tripoli, the Special Coordinator met with the Archbishop of the Maronite…
Tripoli, 16 December 2024 On the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the adoption of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the…
Thank you Madam President, members of the Council, At the outset, let me first congratulate the Libyan people on the successful holding of local elections held on 16 November in a first group of 58 municipalities across the…
Port-au-Prince, 16 December 2024 - As the Haitian population continues to face widespread acts of violence in and around Port-au-Prince, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti reiterates its call on all political…
United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Mr Geir O. Pedersen met in Damascus today with a delegation of the Syrian Negotiations Commission (SNC) comprising different components of the SNC, including military representatives who…
Camels have shaped Somalia’s cultural identity long before Somalia was sovereign. When Somalia gained independence in 1960, Somalis found it fitting to describe the moment as “Maandeeq,” which means milk-camel, to stand as a…
United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Mr Geir O. Pedersen is in Damascus. He has so far met with Commander of the New Administration Mr Ahmed al-Sharaa and Prime Minister of the Caretaker Government Mr Mohammed al-Bashir…
Assalamu Alaikum It has now been 8 months since I joined the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. I would like to speak to you directly, as I will later announce the details of the UNSMIL-facilitated political process for…
Listen, first and foremost, of course, the change that we're now seeing after the fall of the Assad regime has just been immense, and of course that change in itself creates great hopes, but we all know there are many…
