Two Chinese UN peacekeepers were killed in renewed fighting between South Sudan's rival army factions in capital Juba, a UN official confirmed to Xinhua on Monday.
South Sudan's Health Ministry has confirmed 271 people were killed in Friday's clashes between rival army factions outside the presidential palace in the capital Juba and there is renewed heavy fighting on Sunday.
All countries involved in South China Sea disputes should settle their differences peacefully and “avoid any escalation or misunderstandings that could put security and development in the region at risk”, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Beijing on Thursday.
All countries must strengthen cooperation on border control and enforcement to effectively stop foreign terrorist fighters from moving across borders, said a Chinese envoy here on Friday.
A training course for female peacekeepers jointly sponsored by China's Ministry of National Defense and UN Women started in Beijing on Monday.
The UN Special Envoy for Syria announced Thursday that he will brief the UN Security Council on June 29 after holding consultations in New York and Washington in view of resuming intra-Syrian talks aiming to broker an end to the five-year conflict next month.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday said that 17.5 million U.S. dollars are urgently needed to meet the immediate needs of refugees fleeing Fallujah, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
Suffering is not new to the Yemeni people who have been coping with crises since chaos started in the country in 2011.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution to ensure strict implementation of arms embargo on Libya.
The United Nations (UN) Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday released its Projected Global Resettlement Needs for 2017, which said that 1.19 million people will need resettlement in 2017.
The UN Human Rights Council (HCR) on Monday marked its tenth anniversary by holding a high-level panel discussion to reflect on its achievements and challenges.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said here on Thursday that he has to remove temporarily Saudi-led coalition from UN's blacklist of committing violations against children due to "undue pressure."
After a second round of auditions of candidates for the next UN secretary-general concluded here on Tuesday, UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft said he will made conclusions on these auditions and report them to the Security Council.
World Oceans Day, a UN-designated day held annually on June 8, aims to arouse people's consciousness to preserve oceans on Earth.
The European Union (EU) on Monday asked the UN Security Council to authorize EU's naval forces in the Mediterranean to enforce the UN arms embargo on Libya.
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien has expressed deep concern for the plight of civilians trapped in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, where a major military operation against the Islamic State is taking place, a UN spokesman said here Thursday.
Terrorist attacks against the UN peacekeepers in Mali, which left one Chinese blue helmet died, have outraged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and led to strong condemnation from China.
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