Peace and Security

MINUJUSTH/Leonora Baumann

Haiti: ‘Laden with challenges’ but also hope, Mission chief tells Security Council

12 December 2018
Americas

Haiti is “laden with challenges, but also hope”, the head of the UN Mission in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday, against the backdrop of on-going political unrest in the Caribbean country.

UN Photo/Manuel Elias

‘Staunch support’ for Iran nuclear deal tempered by concern over missile testing

12 December 2018
Middle East

While there is “staunch support” among Member States for the 2016 Iran nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, that is tempered by concerns over some of its other activities, which Iran “should carefully consider and address” according to the latest report  on the deal from the UN Secretary-General.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN working with both sides, after hidden tunnels confirmed along Lebanon-Israel ‘Blue Line’

11 December 2018
Middle East

The head of the United Nations peace mission in Lebanon has urged an end to “rumours and speculations” over tunnels which have been discovered along the UN-drawn “Blue Line” – the border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel.

UN Photo/Mark Garten

Governments adopt UN global migration pact to help ‘prevent suffering and chaos’

10 December 2018

The Global Compact for Migration was adopted on Monday by leading representatives from 164 Governments at an international conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, in an historic move described by UN Chief António Guterres as the creation of a “roadmap to prevent suffering and chaos”.

UN Photo/Loey Felipe

US resolution to condemn activities of Hamas voted down in General Assembly

6 December 2018
Middle East

Although a majority of UN Member States voted in favour of a General Assembly resolution put forward by the United States – condemning the activities of Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza – it failed to be adopted on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York.

MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko

Preventing and resolving conflicts must form ‘backbone’ of collective efforts – UN chief

6 December 2018
Africa

More countries are experiencing violent conflict now than at any time over the past 30 years, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday, underscoring that the world has a responsibility to act “collectively”.

MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko

UN launches new framework to strengthen fight against terrorism

6 December 2018
Global

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched a new Organization-wide framework on Thursday to coordinate efforts across the peace and security, humanitarian, human rights and sustainable development sectors.

UN Photo/Martine Perret

Western Sahara: a 'peaceful solution’ to conflict is possible, says UN envoy

6 December 2018
Africa

The first UN-led talks in six years over the disputed Western Sahara-region concluded on a positive note on Thursday in Geneva, where the Organization’s representative Horst Köhler said that further discussions are planned “in the first quarter of 2019”.

Giles Clarke/UN OCHA

Yemen war: UN-backed talks to silence the guns begin in Sweden

6 December 2018
Middle East

Highly anticipated UN-brokered consultations about substantive talks which could lead to an end to more than three years of brutal conflict across Yemen, have begun in Sweden. Brutal fighting has left the Middle East nation divided between Government and rebel forces, with millions on the brink of famine, and the economy and society in ruins.

UN Photo/Patricia Esteve

Sustainability, peace, security ‘best guarantee against instability’ Guterres to Security Council

5 December 2018
Africa

“Peace and development are indivisible,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday, encouraging a stronger push along what he dubbed “the peace continuum” as the “best guarantee against instability and insecurity.”