4 February 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Minister of State and Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change, of…
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4 February 2014 – While Yemen has made good progress in its political transition, the country will not enjoy stability…
4 February 2014 – The United Nations today began a new airlift from Iraq to feed nearly 30,000 displaced people…
2 February 2014 – While confirming today’s delivery of more than 700 food parcels to the desperate, malnourished civilians stranded…
1 February 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have strongly condemned the “heinous” terrorist attack…
31 January 2014 – Voicing deep concern about the growing threats and attacks on members of the media in Egypt,…
31 January 2014 – Syrian Government and opposition delegates today wrapped up what United Nations officials hope will be just…
31 January 2014 – A senior United Nations relief official today called for a halt to the displacement of Palestinians…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muhamad Raslan is no stranger to violence. He has been fighting in the mountains of Idlib with the Free Syrian Army for more than two years. But when his unit overthrew a regime prison in Maart al Numan, he said the conditions of…
23 January 2014 – The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which settles the damage claims of those who suffered losses…
23 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Egyptians to mark the third anniversary of their revolution by…
22 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today opened a concerted new effort to end the brutal civil war in…
22 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated Yemen on successfully concluding nearly year-long talks on which the country’s…
22 January 2014 – Independent United Nations human rights expert today called on the Government of Iran to urgently halt…
21 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Switzerland today on the eve of a United Nations-led conference on…
21 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Security Council and the UN envoy to Lebanon have condemned…
21 January 2014 – After being on the brink of civil war, Yemenis negotiated an agreement for peaceful change, the…
20 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today withdrew his invitation to Iran to attend a United Nations conference on…
20 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Iraq’s political leaders to enter inclusive talks in the face…
Enlarge An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector disconnects the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium production at nuclear power plant of Natanz, as Iran halted production of 20 percent enriched uranium…