28 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday welcomed the appointment of a mediation team to work with Government…
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28 December 2013 – The deadline set for the removal of the most critical chemical weapons material from Syria for…
27 December 2013 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged Cambodian authorities to continue to exercise restraint…
Syria is “unlikely” to meet a December 31 deadline to move its most dangerous chemical arms out of the country, the United Nations acknowledged for the first time Saturday. The UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said…
The first UN peacekeeping reinforcements arrived Friday in South Sudan, where the government is said to have agreed an immediate ceasefire after nearly two weeks of heavy fighting with rebels. Seventy-two members of a police contingent, moved from the…
27 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Security Council and the top United Nations envoy in Lebanon have strongly…
The United Nations Development Programme has launched, together with partners, a new centre that will help countries to best use…
27 December 2013 – The United Nations today called on the Iraqi Government to ensure maximum security for some 3,200…
27 December 2013 – Some 63,000 civilians have now sought refuge in United Nations bases in South Sudan as the…
27 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today called on the President of Uganda to refrain from…