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United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert today began a visit to Israel, where she is set to meet with senior Israeli officials. Her discussions will focus on steps being taken towards the…

I am concluding a very meaningful and productive visit to Lebanon. I have been profoundly moved by all I saw and heard. Throughout my time here, I have sensed an atmosphere of opportunity. After one of the most difficult…

It was for me a great pleasure and a great honour to once again visit the Speaker of Parliament and to express to him the total solidarity of the UN with the Lebanese people in this important moment of its history. We are…

I want to express the total support of the United Nations to the process that is taking place in Lebanon, in which with a new president, with a new prime minister that is forming a government, and opportunities created for…

In this meeting with the President of the Republic, I had the opportunity to express our solidarity with the people of Lebanon that have suffered so much and our total support to the President, to the future government…

I am concluding a very meaningful and productive visit to Lebanon. I have been profoundly moved by all I saw and heard. Throughout my time here, I have sensed an atmosphere of opportunity. After one of the most difficult…

I just arrived from Naqoura from a visit to UNIFIL, and I felt extremely proud of the courage and resilience of the soldiers of UNIFIL, and especially the fact that, in an extremely difficult moment, when there was enormous…

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is calling for the immediate restoration of calm following an outbreak of violence which has resulted in an unverified number of casualties and looting of businesses in the…

Dear Lieutenant General Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz and the mission leadership, Dear Team UNIFIL, It is such an honour to be with you after one of the most challenging periods imaginable. I told the world that all of you are not just…