Press Releases

1 April 2011 - I condemn in the strongest terms the outrageous and cowardly attack against the United Nations office in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan. Our reports are still preliminary, but it appears that three United Nations international staff as well as four international security officers were…

1 April 2011 - "We can confirm that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) operations centre in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan has been attacked today following a demonstration. We can also confirm that there have been United Nations personnel deaths. The situation is…

Nairobi, 1 April 2011 - High Level Consultative Meeting to take place on 12 and 13 April 2011. [English] [Somali]

UNMIK/PR/547 PRISTINA---The Organizing Committee of the Pristina International Marathon, to be held on 8th April, wishes to announce that the route of the marathon has been changed due to security considerations. The marathon would now be run in and around Pristina city. The new route is: Boro e…

Hosting Mr. DAVID GRESSLY, UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan. Read the full transcript

Issue 1, March 2011

Communiqué of the Conference on the AU Support to the Implementation of the Djibouti Peace Process for Somalia. Accra, 2 March 2011

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) convened a conference on the theme "The African Union (AU) Support to the Implementation of the Djibouti Peace Process for Somalia" hosted by the Government of the Republic of Ghana in Accra from 28 February to 2 March 2011. [Full Communiqué]

Nairobi, 15 March 2011 – UNPOS Quarterly, Issue 1

New York, 17 March 2011 – The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1972 (2011) on arms embargo against Somalia.