Press Releases

UN Headquarters will observe the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on Friday, 24 May 2019.

Mr. President [Ambassador Dian Triansyah Djani of Indonesia], Let me start by wishing “Ramadan Karim” to our Muslim colleagues on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. Allow me to congratulate the Republic of Indonesia…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan On 21 May, SRSG Natalia Gherman met with H.E. Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia. Minister Lajčák was visiting the Central Asian countries also in his capacity as…

On 19 May 2019, during late night hours, a water control station in the Jabal al-Hasawna – southwestern Libya, was deliberately shut down cutting off water supply from the Great Man-Made River (GMMR) to Tripoli and some…

Today we honor more than one million men and women who have served as United Nations peacekeepers since our first mission in 1948. We remember the more than 3,800 personnel who paid the ultimate price. And we express our…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan On 20 May 2019, in Ashgabat, SRSG Natalia Gherman met with H.E. Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary. SRSG informed the Hungarian Minister about the range of activities of…

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attacks perpetrated on 18 May 2019 against vehicles of MINUSMA in Timbuktu and Tessalit, which resulted in one peacekeeper from Nigeria killed and…

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 234

The Secretary-General condemns today's attacks against the United Nation's Integrated Stabilization Mission for Mali (MINUSMA) in Timbuktu and Tessalit. He is deeply saddened at the death of a Nigerian peacekeeper who…

Accra, 17 May 2019- The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in partnership with the UN System Staff College (UNSSC), the West Africa Network…