Talking to journalists today at the United Nations on the situation in Syria, United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron says that if there is no engagement with the opposition, "then we shouldn't be surprised if extremist elements in that opposition grow". UNTV
Briefing the Security Council today, Margaret Vogt Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations (UN) Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (CAR) says that "there is an urgent need to restore security stability in the CAR." UNTV
The United Nations General Assembly today approved a resolution condemning the Syrian Government and giving recognition to the Syrian National Coalition by 107 votes in favour, 12 votes against and 59 abstentions. UNTV
Tanzanian forces arrived last Friday (10 May) to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to serve in the intervention brigade recently approved by the Security Council. MONUSCO
The Secretary-General spoke at the Security Council meeting this morning on terrorism in Africa. He said that terrorism is a threat to Africa’s peace, security and development. UNTV
As part of his five-day tour of the region, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous on Sunday toured the Line of Withdrawal (Blue Line) in UNIFIL area of operations in southern Lebanon. UNIFIL
Since the departure of extremist group al Shabaab in 2011, Somalia's National Security Forces and their African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) partners, have been collecting and destroying unexploded ordnance (UXOs) from all over the Somali capital. AU / UN IST
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday that reports of massacres allegedly carried out by Syrian government forces and pro-government militias in recent days should spur international action to find a solution to the conflict and ensure those responsible for serious human rights violations are made to account for their crimes. [...]
Jose Ramos Horta, the United Nations’ Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau will present to the Security Council the latest report of the Secretary-General on developments in Guinea-Bissau. UNTV
While talking about the recent (4 May) attack by ethnic Misseriya pastoralist tribesmen on a UN convoy in Abyei, South Sudan's Ambassador said today (9 May) at the United Nations that "this was not by any means an isolated incident." He added that "it is a culmination of a pattern." UNTV