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Good afternoon and Ramadan Kareem. I met with the Prime Minister in anticipation of my visit to Washington and New York, where obviously the stability and security situations will be discussed, both with the American authorities but also with the Security Council. I believe this is a particularly…

KABUL - On behalf of the United Nations in Afghanistan, I condemn today’s attack in Kabul that targeted Afghan National Police (ANP) cadets and their instructors, killing 33 and injuring 71 others. Earlier today, the Taliban launched a two-stage suicide attack, in Kabul province’s Paghman district…

The Office of the United Nations for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), the International institute of Peace (IPI) and the federal Department of the foreign affairs of the Swiss Confederation (DFAE), organized a high level meeting on the theme: “To invest in the Peace and the Prevention of Violence…

UNHQ, New York Monday, 27 June 2016 The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the consecutive terrorist attacks on 27 June in Qaa, Lebanon, which resulted in many deaths and injuries. The members of the Security Council expressed their deep sympathy and condolences to the…

UNMISS Update No. 132

A peacekeeper of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) was shot dead by unidentified armed men on June 24 2016 in Bangui. MINUSCA peacekeepers were alerted and, in coordination with the national security forces, immediately…

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Ms. Sigrid Kaag strongly condemned the four suicide bombings that took place at dawn this morning in the north-eastern Lebanese border town of El-Qaa, and which killed five civilians and injured several others. The Special Coordinator expressed her…

UNMISS provides protection to civilians fleeing Violence in Wau

Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on South Sudan on Wau