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Libyan Economic Dialogue Meets to Follow up on Critical Economic Reforms
6 January 2021 – On 5 January, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General (ASRSG) and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Stephanie Williams, together with the co-chairs of the Economic Working Group (EWG), including the Ambassadors of the Republic of Egypt, the European…
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LPDF continues in parallel meetings of Advisory and Legal Committees
Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General (ASRSG) Stephanie Williams was pleased to convene today the first virtual meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum’s Advisory Committee (AC), composed of 18 LPDF members, to discuss the mandate of the committee, its tasks, expected…
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Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General Stephanie Williams announces the establishment of the LPDF's Advisory Committee
Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General Stephanie Williams is pleased to announce the establishment of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum’s Advisory Committee and is grateful to the LPDF members for their active and constructive participation. UNSMIL received a total of 28…
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UNMHA statement on civilian deaths at wedding hall
HUDAYDAH, 2 January 2021 — The Head of the United Nations Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) and Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee Abhijit Guha is deeply troubled by reports of multiple civilian deaths and injuries as a result of shelling in Hudaydah’s Al Hawk district…
UNAMID DJSR MEETS WITH GOVERNOR OF CENTRAL DARFUR
Zalingei, 31 December 2020: On 31 st December, UNAMID’s Deputy Joint Special Representative (DJSR) Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho met in her office in Zalingei with the Wali (Governor) of Central Darfur State, Mr. Adeeb Abdulrahman Yousif, to discuss issues pertaining to UNAMID’s drawdown and exit. During the…
UNAMID Ends its Mandate on 31 December 2020
Khartoum, 30 December 2020— On 22 December 2020, The UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2559 which ends UNAMID’s mandate on 31 December 2020. This was the culmination of a sustained process of consideration of the situation in Sudan and Darfur, including developments related to the…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S NEW YEAR’S VIDEO MESSAGE 2021
Dear Friends, 2020 has been a year of trials, tragedies and tears. COVID-19 upended our lives and plunged the world into suffering and grief. So many loved ones have been lost — and the pandemic rages on, creating new waves of sickness and death. Poverty, inequality and hunger are rising. Jobs are…
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Security Council Press Statement on attacks against the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA)
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attacks on 25 December 2020 against the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in Dékoa and near Sibut, both in Kémo Prefecture, which resulted in three peacekeepers from…
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Notes Lebanon Verdict in Case of 1980 Killing of Two Peacekeepers
The Secretary-General takes note of the verdict of 22 December by Lebanon’s Permanent Military Court convicting Mr. Mahmoud Bazzi and sentencing him to 15 years for the kidnapping and killing of two United Nations peacekeepers and causing serious injury to a third peacekeeper in April 1980. The…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS
New York, 27 December 2020 This first observance of the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness falls at the end of a year in which a scenario many had feared came tragically true. With COVID-19 having now killed more than 1.7 million people, devastated economies, upended societies and exposed…