Press Releases

28 April 2008 - The following Security Council press statement on Afghanistan was read out today by Council President Dumisani S. Kumalo (South Africa). The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the…

5 March 2009 -- The decision by the Government of Sudan to expel 13 non-governmental organizations involved in aid operations in Darfur will, if implemented, cause irrevocable damage to humanitarian operations there. The…

4 March 2009 -- The International Criminal Court has today issued a warrant for the arrest of President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan, for his alleged responsibility for crimes committed in Darfur…

On 3 March, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča visited the Eurasian University in Astana, Kazakhstan, on to deliver a lecture on the role of the UNRCCA in preventive diplomacy in Central Asia…

Communiqué of the 14 th Meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia. Brussels, 27 February 2009

New York, 17 February 2009 -- The Secretary-General welcomes the "Agreement of goodwill and confidence-building for the settlement of the problem in Darfur" signed in Doha, Qatar, today by the Government of Sudan and the…

SRSG Miroslav Jenca's Article "Developments in Central Asia and the Role of the UNRCCA" was published at International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Issue no.02 /2009, Publisher: Research Center of the Slovak…

N'Djamena, 27 January 2009 – The United Nations Mission in Central African and Chad (MINURCAT) successively hosted military teams from Togo and Ghana. The two countries have expressed a willingness to contribute military…

5 February 2009 -- No fighting was reported in Muhajeriya today although the situation remains tense and approximately 3,000 people are still gathered around the UNAMID team site there. UNAMID continues to monitor the…