News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Mayor of Tripoli, Almahdi Alharati, welcoming the Special Representative of the Secretay-General for Libya, Bernardino Leon, upon arrival in the Libyan capital. Tripoli, Monday 27 October 2014
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Bernardino Leon, with Libyan MPs speaking to the media after a meeting with the House of Representatives' members and its president. Tobruk, Monday 27 October…
الممثل الخاص للأمين العام للأمم المتحدة في ليبيا، برناردينو ليون، يجتمع مع رئيس مجلس النواب الليبي السيد عقيلة صالح لإطلاعه على المشاورات المتعلقة بمبادرة الحوار والتحضيرات الجارية من أجل عقد الجولة الثانية للحوار. طبرق،…
27 October 2014 – Amid continuing flare-ups of deadly violence and a tenuous humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission ( MONUSCO) in the vast…
New York – The Security Council today authorized the African Union to maintain deployment of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) until 30 November 2015, while also amending several aspects of the sanctions regime…
New York – The Security Council today authorized the African Union to maintain deployment of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) until 30 November 2015, while also amending several aspects of the sanctions regime…
JALALABAD - "Why does it allow them to stay?" the man asked incredulously. "They should be going back to their homes."Afghanistan's internally displaced persons (IDP) policy - finally passed earlier this year after a long…
KABUL - The United Nations welcomes yesterday’s announcement by Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) of the final results from the 2014 Provincial Council elections.Preliminary results of the Provincial Council…
At UN Day function, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon says UN has been here on the ground as a close partner to Lebanon and the Lebanese people for almost seven decades. Full text of at the UN Day function held at the…
When I arrived in Lebanon in February 2012 to take up my position as the Secretary-General’s Special Coordinator for Lebanon, the Arab world was already in the throes of extraordinary change. It was a period of hope and of…
BISHKEK, Kyrgyz republic – Miroslav Jenča, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), visited Kyrgyzstan on 22-24 October. He held…
The United Nations is needed more than ever at this time of multiple crises. Poverty, disease, terrorism, discrimination and climate change are exacting a heavy toll. Millions of people continue to suffer deplorable…