Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1771 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Farid Zarif strongly condemned the bomb attack on Sunday morning at the Three Towers complex in northern Mitrovica. Mr. Selver…

Dakar, 7 april 2011 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa, Said Djinnit, visited Bamako, Mali, on 6-7 April, to reiterate the United Nations firm position on the need for an…

New York, 5 April 2012 -The Secretary-General welcomes the Security Council’s strong condemnation of the forcible seizure of power in Mali and its renewed call for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule in the…

Mogadishu, 4 April 2012 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga expressed his outrage at the suicide attack at Mogadishu's National Theatre during a celebratory ceremony today, which…

Seoul, 26 March 2012 - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with the two candidates in yesterday’s Presidential run-off elections in Senegal, Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal, and Mr. Macky…

The Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Paolo Serra, today chaired a regular tripartite meeting with senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)…

Entebbe, 26 March 2012 – Somali civil society reconfirmed its commitment to the Roadmap and the end of the transition process and furthermore acknowledged the invitation from the Signatories to participate in the process and…

Galka'yo, 26 March 2012 – The Somali signatories of the process for ending the transition held a consultative meeting. The meeting was hosted by Puntland State of Somalia and facilitated by the Office of the UN Special…

Mogadishu, 23 March 2012 – UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, expressed today his profound sadness over the death of Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the former President of Somalia.…