Press Releases

UNHQ, New York Monday, 27 June 2016 The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the consecutive terrorist attacks on 27 June in Qaa, Lebanon, which resulted in many deaths and injuries. The members of…

UNMISS Update No. 132

A peacekeeper of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) was shot dead by unidentified armed men on June 24 2016 in Bangui. MINUSCA peacekeepers were…

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Ms. Sigrid Kaag strongly condemned the four suicide bombings that took place at dawn this morning in the north-eastern Lebanese border town of El-Qaa, and which killed five…

UNMISS provides protection to civilians fleeing Violence in Wau

Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on South Sudan on Wau

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) welcomes the release of the six Central African policemen who were held hostages by armed elements. MINUSCA…

June 24 – Following three incidents in the past days that put access to health care in Benghazi under attack, the acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator and WHO Representative/ head of mission, Dr. Syed Jaffar Hussain, expresses…

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – On 22-24 June, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Petko Draganov, visited Tashkent as part of…