Press Releases
- 03 Aug 2024 - As Lebanon marks four years since the devastating Beirut Port explosion, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert met with families of some of the victims. The families shared their stories of this unprecedented...
- 31 Jul 2024 - Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General The Secretary-General believes that the attacks we have seen in South Beirut and Teheran represent a dangerous escalation at a moment in which all efforts should instead be leading to a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of...
- 30 Jul 2024 - UN Special Coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert is deeply concerned by tonight’s strike, claimed by Israel, in the densely populated southern suburb of Beirut which resulted in multiple civilian casualties....
- 28 Jul 2024 - In response to questions regarding the rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan, the Spokesperson has the following to say: The Secretary-General condemns the killing of 12 civilians, mainly children and teenagers in the Druze village of Majdal Shams,...
- 24 Jul 2024 - UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon briefs UN Security Council 24 July 2024 Today, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (SCL), briefed the UN Security Council, alongside UN Under-...
- 07 Jul 2024 - Earlier today, United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert arrived in Israel for a three-day visit. Since assuming office last month, Hennis-Plasschaert has extensively engaged the Lebanese leadership and key interlocutors on ways to...
- 21 Jun 2024 - New York, 21 June 2024 I felt compelled today to voice my profound concerns about escalation between Israel and Hezbollah along the Blue Line. Escalation in continued exchanges of fire. Escalation in bellicose rhetoric from both sides as if an all-out war was imminent. The...
- 20 Jun 2024 - UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert Visits UNIFIL 20 June 2024 On her first visit to UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, UN Special Coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert met today with UNIFIL Force Commander and Head of Mission Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro...
- 15 Jun 2024 - As communities in Lebanon and around the world celebrate Eid Al-Adha, the UN family reiterates its call for all actors along the Blue Line to put down their weapons and commit to a path of peace. Since October, we have seen too many lives lost, families uprooted, and...
- 20 May 2024 - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert of the Netherlands as his new Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL). Ms. Hennis-Plasschaert succeeds...