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NEW YORK - The Secretary-General encourages all Afghan women and men eligible to vote to cast their ballot in the upcoming Presidential and Provincial Council elections on 20 August 2009. He notes that, by participating in these elections, the Afghan people will help Afghanistan strengthen its…

NEW YORK - 18 August 2009 - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the deaths of UNAMA staff members in Kabul, Afghanistan The Secretary-General is deeply distressed by the news that two Afghan UN staff members were killed, and a third injured, in a suicide attack in…

A one-day workshop on Elections was organized today in Khartoum by the Political Parties Affairs Council (PPAC) with the support from UNMIS and the UN Development Programme. The workshop, which was the first of its kind, brought together nearly 180 representatives drawn from 62 registered political…

18 August 2009 - I am shocked and greatly saddened to have learned that two of my staff members were among those killed in today’s suicide bombing on Kabul’s Jalalabad Road. پشتو و دری A third colleague has been wounded and is currently being treated for his injuries. All are nationals of…

I am shocked and greatly saddened to have learned that two of my staff members were among those killed in today’s suicide bombing on Kabul’s Jalalabad Road. A third colleague has been wounded and is currently being treated for his injuries. All are nationals of Afghanistan. At this time UNAMA is in…

Hosting UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan, Lise Grande Read the full transcript

The Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme implemented under the January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) marked a key milestone today, with the successful completion of Phase One of the demobilisation exercise in Blue Nile State. The last participants from a caseload…

Special Representative Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah today welcomed the release of the four Aid workers and their two pilots from captivity in Somalia.

UNMIK/PR/1750 PRISTINA – The Officer in Charge of UNMIK, Chief of Staff Robert E. Sorenson, conveys the following message today to the people of Kosovo on the occasion of the upcoming holiday of Ramazan Bajram. “On behalf of Special Representative of the Secretary-General Lamberto Zannier and…

Communiqué: The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) convened a conference of former senior military and police officers of the Somali National security forces in Washington DC from 1 st to 5 th August 2009. The conference was co…