Press Releases

Special Representative Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah held a meeting with Louise Arbour, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group on the final day of an ICG conference held in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam.

On 16 November 2009, UNPOS in cooperation with the Government of Uganda, began the training of officers of the Ministry of National Security of Somalia. The training was in keeping with efforts towards building the capacity…

11 November 2009 - “More political will and less political exceptionalism” is required for the Security Council to be more effective in its critically important work of protecting civilians in situations of armed conflict…

The Deputy SRSG travelled to Mogadishu on 12 November 2009 where he briefed members of the cabinet on the ongoing initiatives in the area of security sector, notably in terms of the training programme and carried out…

Hosting chief of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) mission in Sudan, Jill Helke Read the full transcript

KABUL - The members of the Security Council acknowledged the conclusion of the electoral process in 2009 following the decision of the Independent Electoral Commission of Afghanistan to declare President Karzai elected…

Meeting in Kadugli on 3 November 2009, the DDR Roundtable Partnership acknowledged significant progress since the launch of the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) in February this year, under the…

3 November 2009 - UNIPSIL seeks to broaden co-operation networks with Sierra Leonean partners based in the districts in the area of democratic institutions. To familiarize himself with the situation and the way forward for…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - A five-day training on preventive diplomacy organized by the United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in cooperation with the UN Institute for Training and…

2 November 2009 - I welcome today’s decision by Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission to forego a run-off vote and to declare Hamid Karzai as the winner of the 2009 presidential elections. I congratulate President…