The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will open a photo exhibition entitled ?In Search of Solidarity: The State of the World?s Refugees 2012? in the main gallery of the Visitors Lobby on Wednesday, 20 June, at 6 p.m. It will be on display through 7 August. Launched on World Refugee Day, 20 […]
Two gorgeous little girls of an Afghan family that had returned from foreign exile would have had a shining future if they were born in the developed world, an Afghan-born novelist and goodwill envoy for the United Nations refugees agency said today at a Headquarters? press conference. ?They might have been models? if they […]
Also Requests General Assembly to Consider Issue Comprehensively, Calls for Release of Political Prisoners, As More Than 30 Petitioners Take Floor The Special Committee on Decolonization today called on the United States to expedite a process that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence, requesting the General Assembly […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Li Baodong ( China): The Security Council heard a briefing on 14 June by Special Envoy Haile Menkerios and Assistant Secretary-General Edmond Mulet on the implementation of resolution 2046 (2012) and the African Union road map. The members of the Security Council welcomed the […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message for World Refugee Day, observed 20 June: More than 42 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes and communities. More than a million fled their countries in the last 18 months alone due to a wave of conflicts, in Côte d?Ivoire, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Sudan […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Li Baodong ( China): On Friday, 15 June, the members of the Security Council met with a high-level delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss the situation in Mali. The members of the Security Council shared the concerns […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Li Baodong ( China): The members of the Security Council expressed strong concern about the recent developments in the Kivus and the deterioration of the security and humanitarian situation resulting in significant flows of displaced persons and refugees. They strongly condemned the […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is following attentively Egypt?s presidential election process, which is a very important part of the transition to greater democracy that the Egyptian people have struggled so patiently and so courageously to achieve. He notes the heightened debate and […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber of Germany as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). The new Special Representative of the Secretary-General succeeds Hany Abdel-Aziz of Egypt, who completed his assignment on 30 April 2012. The Secretary-General is […]
Questions of Gibraltar, Western Sahara, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Examined An ?eighteenth century attitude? prevailed in continued efforts by Spain to incorporate the disputed territory of Gibraltar ? against the will of the Gibraltarian people – that Territory?s Chief Minister told the Special Committee on Decolonization this morning, as it considered the questions of Gibraltar, […]
