Mary Robinson, the United Nation Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, visited the city of Goma today in the conflict-riven east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she pressed the importance of implementing a recently-signed regional peace agreement to end the cycles of conflict and crisis in the region. MONUSCO
Mary Robinson, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, arrived to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo yesterday where she met with President Joseph Kabila, and Prime Minister Augustin Matata. MONUSCO
ecretary-General Ban Ki-moon tells a Security Council meeting on Women and Peace and Security that preventing sexual violence is “first and foremost a responsibility of States” but stressed that “prevention is also a collective responsibility” and to succeed, “we must use all the tools at our disposal.” UNTV
Ambassador Eugène-Richard Gasana, the Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations and the President of the Security Council for the month of April, briefs journalists on the Council’s work for this month. UNTV
UNICEF is providing organized recreational activities for children and youth at the Nkamira Transit Centre, located in Rwanda's north-western District of Rubavu, which hosts thousands of Congolese refugees, most of whom are women and children. UNICEF
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon met today (20 March) with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. President Kagame has been travelling the United States and Mexico since early March, attending a series of meetings on socio-economic issues. UNTV
The General Assembly today elected Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, the Republic of Korea and Rwanda for two-year terms as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. UNTV
The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda held talks at UN headquarters today (27 September) on how to stop a "campaign of terror" that has uprooted over 300,000 people in eastern DRC since April and which Rwanda is alleged to be backing. UNTV / MONUSCO
Responding to a warning issued by the Managing Director of the IMF where it warned that the Fund would be forced to "pull a red card" if the country didn't improve its statistics, Argentina's President said that her country was "not a soccer team". UNTV
Iran's President told delegates during a summit on the Rule Law today (24 September) at the United Nations, "Discriminatory privilege of the veto right enjoyed by some members of the Security Council lacks legitimacy." UNTV