Press Releases

NICOSIA, 12 October 2015 - Today, the Greek Cypriot leader Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Mustafa Akıncı, deliberated on the outstanding issues in the negotiations. Conscious of the need to build…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan On 9-11 October, UNRCCA together with other UN entities and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan organized the fourth diplomatic mini-football tournament within the…

10 October 2015 - After receiving a number of enquiries regarding the list of names of candidates for the Libyan Government of National Accord, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Bernardino Leon…

UNMIK/PR/1818 PRISTINA – Mr. Zahir Tanin arrived in Kosovo on Tuesday to take up the leadership of UNMIK as Special Representative of the Secretary-General. Mr. Tanin previously served as Permanent Representative of…

UNMIK/PR/1817 PRISTINA – UNMIK strongly condemns the violence that took place yesterday in the Kosovo Assembly, in which representatives of certain opposition parties obstructed the session by extreme means, leading even to…

New York, 8 October 2015 - The Secretary-General welcomes today’s proposal of nominees for the Presidency Council of the Libyan Government of National Accord. He commends the dialogue participants on having reached a final…

A Burundian peacekeeper working for the United Nations Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) was killed on Tuesday 6 October 20l5, during an attack on a MINUSCA convoy between Damara and…

New York, 6 October 2015 - The Secretary-General reiterates the call of Member States and regional organizations who, during a high-level meeting he convened on 2 October, urged participants in the Libyan political dialogue…

UNMISS Update No. 94

Unidentified armed individuals opened fire in the night of Friday 2 October 2015 on blue helmets guarding the Headquarters of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African…