Press Releases

NEW YORK - The Secretary-General encourages all Afghan women and men eligible to vote to cast their ballot in the upcoming Presidential and Provincial Council elections on 20 August 2009. He notes that, by participating in…

NEW YORK - 18 August 2009 - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the deaths of UNAMA staff members in Kabul, Afghanistan The Secretary-General is deeply distressed by the news that two…

A one-day workshop on Elections was organized today in Khartoum by the Political Parties Affairs Council (PPAC) with the support from UNMIS and the UN Development Programme. The workshop, which was the first of its kind…

18 August 2009 - I am shocked and greatly saddened to have learned that two of my staff members were among those killed in today’s suicide bombing on Kabul’s Jalalabad Road. پشتو و دری A third colleague has been wounded and…

I am shocked and greatly saddened to have learned that two of my staff members were among those killed in today’s suicide bombing on Kabul’s Jalalabad Road. A third colleague has been wounded and is currently being treated…

Hosting UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan, Lise Grande Read the full transcript

The Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme implemented under the January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) marked a key milestone today, with the successful completion of Phase One of the…

Special Representative Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah today welcomed the release of the four Aid workers and their two pilots from captivity in Somalia.

Communiqué: The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) convened a conference of former senior military and police officers of the Somali National security forces…

The Joint Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission in Southern Kordofan has stepped up operations, with the launch of a second demobilisation centre in the State yesterday, 5 August. More