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Secretary-General's message on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
NEW YORK - Female genital mutilation denies women and girls their dignity, endangers their health, and causes needless pain and suffering, with consequences that endure for a lifetime and can even be fatal. Sustainable…
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MINUSCA and UNOCA call UPC and FPRC led coalition for an immediate end to the fighting between
The Special Representatives of the United Nations Secretary-General for Central Africa and the Central African Republic (CAR) call for the immediate cessation of hostilities between FPRC (Front Populaire pour la Renaissance…
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UNOWAS condemns yesterday’s deadly attack against a United Nations Technical Monitoring Team
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, strongly condemns yesterday’s deadly attack against a United Nations…
Press release: UNMISS “committed to creating conditions of peace and security”
The newly arrived head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, has said that the mission is “committed to helping the South Sudanese create the conditions of peace and security,” that internally displaced…
Statement by the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Cyprus, Mr. Espen Barth Eide, following today’s meeting between Mr. Nicos Anastasiades and Mr. Mustafa Akıncı
Nicosia, 1 February 2017 - Today, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Mustafa Akıncı, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, met in the United Nations Protected Area (UNPA) under the auspices of the Special Adviser…
Statement by the UN Secretary-General on Refugees
NEW YORK - On my way back from Ethiopia, the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa that for decades has been keeping its borders open to hundreds of thousands of refugees from its neighbours, many times in dramatic…
Presidents Hollande and Santos visit the local site for the Tripartite Mechanism in Cauca
Bogotá, January 24, 2017 - Presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and François Hollande of France visited the local site for the Tripartite Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (MVM) in Caldono, Cauca to take stock of the…
Secretary-General’s remarks to the African Union Summit [as delivered]
Your Excellency Mr. Idriss Deby Itno, President of the Republic of Chad and Chairperson of the African Union, Your Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Excellencies, All protocol…
Statement on Malakal Attributable to the Office of the Spokesperson, UNMISS Juba, 29 January, 2017
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) remains deeply concerned about the outbreak of fighting between the SPLA and SPLA in Opposition in and around Malakal town, including intermittent shelling that has been…
Joint press statement by the AU, IGAD and the UN - Consultations on South Sudan
The African Union (AU), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the United Nations (UN) held a joint consultative meeting on South Sudan on January 29, 2017 on the margins of the African Union 28 th…