Strongly deploring recent incidents directed at United Nations blue helmets in Lebanon, the Security Council today called for ensuring the safety and freedom of movement of the peacekeepers serving there. Members of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have recently been the target of protests and attacks by villagers in the south [Read More]
The top United Nations official in West Africa has urged Guineas presidential candidates and their supporters to continue to show restraint ahead of the much anticipated release of results from the countrys first democratic elections since it gained independence more than half a century ago. Provisional results from Guineas independent [Read More]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Nepals political parties to step up their efforts to form a consensus government in the wake of this weeks resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. Mr. Nepal resigned on Wednesday amid reports of tensions with other political parties which have members serving in the Constituent [Read More]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has appealed for continued calm in the wake of deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan to allow for reconciliation efforts to gain traction. According to UN agencies, nearly all of the 75,000 ethnic Uzbeks who fled across the border to Uzbekistan after violence erupted in the [Read More]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the Turkish Cypriot leader to grasp the current political window of opportunity to reach a settlement in the dispute over the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. In a meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Mr. Ban and DerviŞ Eroğlu discussed the situation in Cyprus, where UN-backed [Read More]
