News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Mogadishu – The Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, today concluded a five-day visit to Somalia, announcing an additional US$7 million in support of peacebuilding activities in newly…
8 May 2014 – The head of the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations (OPCW-UN) today called for safe and unfettered access to the remaining eight per cent of Syria's…
8 May 2014 - Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission speaks at the media stakeout following her Security Council briefing [ video]
Accra, 6 May 2014 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for West Africa, Mr. Said Djinnit was received in audience by HE Mr. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana and…
The Women’s Empowerment Section of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is pleased to invite the media to cover a “Women Dialogue Initiative” event on Thursday 08 May 2014 at the Corinthia Hotel, Tripoli at 10…
KABUL - As part of a United Nations-supported nationwide campaign, around 8.9 million children under five years of age have been administered anti-polio vaccine drops around Afghanistan.The campaign, implemented by the…
24 April 2014 - The OPCW-UN Joint Mission confirms delivery of a further shipment of chemical weapons material. Today's operation brings the total of chemical material removed and destroyed in country to 92.5%. "I welcome the…
Mogadishu – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) Nicholas Kay met today with the Mayor of Mogadishu and Governor of Banadir Regional Administration, Hassan Mohamed Hussein “Mungab” at the headquarters…
06 May 2014 - A revision of the legal framework of the land law was discussed this Tuesday, at UNIOGBIS, between the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau (SRSG), José Ramos-Horta, the…
Accra, 6 May 2014 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for West Africa, Mr. Said Djinnit was received in audience by HE Mr. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana and…
Accra, 6 May 2014 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for West Africa, Mr. Said Djinnit was received in audience by HE Mr. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana and…
The Secretary-General welcomes the signing by the nuclear-weapon States of the Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia. The Protocol commits the nuclear-weapon States to respect the application of…