News from our Missions
On 23 November 2009, an UNPOS team led by Deputy SRSG Charles Petrie travelled to Hargeisa (Somaliland) to pursue contacts with the regional authorities and explore ways of strengthening working relations to advance peace in…
New York, 18 November 2009 Members have before them the Secretary-General's report pursuant to Security Council resolution 1846 (2008). Let me highlight the key observations. First of all piracy is a highly profitable…
5 November 2009 - Effective immediately, the United Nations is taking additional steps to reduce risks to its national and international staff serving in Afghanistan. This is in light of the 28 October attack against UN staff…
KABUL - Transcript of press conference by Kai Eide, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan. SRSG: Thank you very much I thought I would address three issues: First the political agenda…
22 November 2009 - UNICEF's Country Representative in Afghanistan Catherine Mbengue, addresses the media in Kabul on the launch of the State of the World's Children report.
NEW YORK - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reaffirmed the commitment of the United Nations to support Afghanistan’s progress towards peace, stability and development, as he congratulated Hamid Karzai on his inauguration…
18 November 2009 - A joint United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West-African States (ECOWAS) delegation, headed by the Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Joseph…
KABUL - A day long workshop on arbitrary detention organized by UNAMA’s Rule of Law unit, GTZ, and Balkh Provincial Department of Justice was conducted this week in Mazar-i-Sharif. Even if some improvements have been made…
On 17 and 18 November 2009, UNPOS, in collaboration with UNDP, organised a two-day Disarmament Demobilisation and Rehabilitation (DDR) Workshop for the newly established Somali Ministry of DDR. The purpose of the workshop was…
The SRSG on 18 November 2009 attended the UN Security Council meeting on Piracy and introduced the latest report of the Secretary-General on the issue. Piracy is a symptom of wider problems ashore in Somalia, he said. The…
Nairobi, 16 November 2009 – The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (SRSG) held a meeting with Louise Arbour, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group on the final day of an ICG conference…