Press Releases

New York, 17 February 2009 -- The Secretary-General welcomes the "Agreement of goodwill and confidence-building for the settlement of the problem in Darfur" signed in Doha, Qatar, today by the Government of Sudan and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) under the auspices of the Government of…

SRSG Miroslav Jenca's Article "Developments in Central Asia and the Role of the UNRCCA" was published at International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Issue no.02 /2009, Publisher: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA). The full article is available here…

N'Djamena, 27 January 2009 – The United Nations Mission in Central African and Chad (MINURCAT) successively hosted military teams from Togo and Ghana. The two countries have expressed a willingness to contribute military personnel and equipment to the United Nations peacekeeping mission mandated by…

5 February 2009 -- No fighting was reported in Muhajeriya today although the situation remains tense and approximately 3,000 people are still gathered around the UNAMID team site there. UNAMID continues to monitor the situation very closely.In North Darfur, UNAMID is assisting the humanitarian…

20 September - UNMIS Observes the International Day of Peace 09 September - SRSG Ashraf Qazi commends DDR progress 28 May - UN Peacekeepers Day 01 May - Security Council extends UNMIS mandate 20 April - Census coverage on Radio Miraya 09 April - SRSG Ashraf Qazi urges parties to sustain DDR momentum…

Communiqué of the Meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia. New York, 16 December 2008

31 December 2007 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted the transfer of authority from the African Union to the AU-UN Hybrid Mission in Darfur in a statement released today and delivered at a ceremony in El Fasher. “The transfer opened a new and profoundly challenging chapter in the history of…

31 December 2007 -- Mr. Adada pays his personal tribute to the men and women of AMIS whose dedication, bravery and sacrifice over the last four and a half years has laid the foundation for this new enlarged joint UN and AU Mission. Remarks of the Joint Special Representative Rudolphe Adada at the…

Statment attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the Dakar Agreement 14 March 2008 -- "The Secretary-General commends the Governments of Chad and the Sudan for the Agreement they reached in Dakar yesterday under the auspices of President Abdoulaye Wade. He is encouraged by…