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- African Union
Note to Correspondents: United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security Holds Sixteenth Consultative Meeting in Addis-Ababa
The United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its sixteenth consultative meeting at the African Union headquarters in Addis-Ababa on 12 February 2019. The African Union (AU) Commission and the United Nations (UN) Secretariat were represented respectively by…
- Press Releases
159 Eritrean asylum-seekers get access to safety after months in detention in Libya
UNHCR, the UN Refugee agency, evacuated yesterday 159 Eritrean asylum-seekers from Tripoli airport to the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niamey, continuing its commitment to offer protection to the most vulnerable. Released from different detention centres across the country, most of them…
UN Special Coordinator Jan Kubis Meets Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri
UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis met today with His Excellency Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at Ain El-Tineh, following his arrival in the country on Monday. “We had a good discussion on the strategic priorities of Lebanon and the UN in the coming period, including to safeguard Lebanon…
- Press Releases
SRSG Ibn Chambas condemns the violence in Tambacounda, and calls on the presidential candidates and their supporters to reject violence and to respect their commitments to ensure participatory and peaceful vote
Dakar, 12 February 2019- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, condemns the violence occurred yesterday in Tambacounda, in the east of Senegal, which, according to local authorities, has…
- Secretary-General
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL'S MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD RADIO DAY
UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Ján Kubiš Remarks after Meeting President Michel Aoun
Good morning everybody, I am very grateful that His Excellency the President gave me the audience less than 24 hours after my arrival as the new UN Special Coordinator and political representative of the United Nations here in the country. Of course, I used the opportunity to congratulate His…
Remarks of UN Special Coordinator Ján Kubiš after Meeting Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil
I am extremely honoured to be received some three or four hours after my arrival to the country by His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other high officials of the country. I take this as a very positive gesture. I take this also with a feeling of indebtedness, if you wish, because I…
Statement by UNSMIL on latest developments in the South
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) reminds all parties of their obligations to guarantee the protection of civilians and the country's resources – which belong to all Libyans - by avoiding targeting economic facilities and putting civilians in harm’s way, under any pretext. UNSMIL…