Press Releases

Dili, 25 June 2012 – Unarmed civil security guards today completed the final stage of a training programme designed to help them deal effectively with security issues relating to the protection of public buildings. As part of…

United Nations, New York, 31 July 2012 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the members of a High-level Panel to advise on the global development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for the…

Monrovia, Liberia, 1 August 2012 - The United Nations Mission in Liberia and the Government of Liberia will on 1 August take part in a three-day workshop on the process of handing over UNMIL security responsibilities to the…

Dili, 19 June 2012 - The Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Timor-Leste, Finn Reske-Nielsen, hands over election materials to the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) ahead of…

More than 42 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes and communities. More than a million fled their countries in the last eighteen months alone due to a wave of conflicts, in Cote d…

Dili, 18 June 2012 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, appoints Finn Reske-Nielsen as Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste and Head of the United Nations Integrated Mission…

The heads of the United Nations mission in Côte d'€™Ivoire (UNOCI) and Liberia (UNMIL) along with Government officials from both nations, met yesterday, 13 June 2012 in Abidjan for a quadripartite meeting. The main focus of…

UNMIL is deeply saddened by the loss of seven peacekeepers serving with its sister mission in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI). UNMIL's leadership joins The Secretary-General of the United Nations in his condemnation of the attack on…

8 June 2012 -The United Nations Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly and the Security Council have condemned "in the strongest possible terms" an attack in Côte d'Ivoire in which seven peacekeepers were…

Today the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) observed the annual International Day of UN Peacekeepers that also marks the 64th anniversary of peacekeeping by the United Nations. A solemn ceremony marking International…