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Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Tripoli, 08 January 2020 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salame, welcomes recent calls for a ceasefire in Libya by a number of…
The members of the Security Council expressed concern over the political deadlock currently facing Haiti. They reaffirmed the immediate need for Haitian actors to engage in an inclusive and open dialogue and to form a…
On Monday, the Secretary-General made a passionate appeal for peace. His message to world leaders was simple: Stop escalation. Exercise maximum restraint. Re-start dialogue. Renew international cooperation. This appeal…
TUNIS, 07 January 2020 – UNSMIL convened yesterday a meeting of 19 Libyan economic experts representing the main Libyan financial and economic institutions as well as the different economic sectors. The experts, who took part…
A group of 40 former FARC combatants, 20 of their relatives, and 20 residents of the community of Llano Grande, Dabeiba, for the first time, visited the Atanasio Girardot stadium in Medellin. The invitation was organized by…
Informal comments to the media by Ghassan Salame, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on the latest situation in Libya. Transcript of SRSG for Libya…
PRESS RELEASE The United Nations launches 75 th anniversary dialogues: The biggest global conversation on the world's future starts now. January 1, 2020 saw the launch of the UN75 initiative - the largest, most inclusive…
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations’ Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, expresses his outrage and condemnation of the terrorist act on a bus in…
It is recess time, and lively chatter can be heard from the grounds of Abdalla Deerow School in Baidoa. Located in the centre of the city, it provides free education five days a week to more than one thousand girls from…
Elected president of the Movement for Democratic Alternation Party, Madem-G15, obtained 53, 55% of the votes; voting had almost a third abstentions; First-round winner Domingos Simões Pereira of Guinea's largest political…
The United Nations launches 75th anniversary dialogues: The biggest global conversation on the world's future starts now. January 1, 2020 saw the launch of the UN75 initiative - the largest, most inclusive conversation on the…