The UN Security Council will be working on recommendations on capacity building for the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali as well as increasing its troop levels, French Ambassador to the UN Francois Delattre said here on Wednesday.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday took further steps to restrict the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from the global financial system.
Two United Nations (UN) rapporteurs on Wednesday urged immediate protection for thousands of civilians caught up in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) offensives in the Aleppo region of northern Syria.
A Chinese member of a United Nations (UN)mission in Mali was killed and four other Chinese peacekeepers were injured in an attack on UN peacekeepers, China's Embassy in Mali said Wednesday.
The United Nations is "deeply concerned" over the fate of an estimated 8,000 Syrians trapped by fighting following advances by the Islamic State (IS), a UN spokesman said here Tuesday.
UN peacekeeping operations are faced with multiple challenges and are in need of improvement to better fulfill their mandate, said Herve Ladsous, UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations.
Top UN peacekeepers, admittedly ashamed of reports of troops involved in sexual exploitation and abuse cases, said on Thursday the world organization is committed to eradicating the "scourge which actually dishonors" the work and sacrifices of peacekeepers.
Syrian peace talks aiming to broker an end to the five-year conflict will not resume in the next two to three weeks, United Nations(UN) Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura's office announced in a statement Thursday.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday left open the possibility of running for the South Korean presidency after his term with the world body ends.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson will travel to Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) later this week, a UN spokesman said here Monday.
The United Nations would like to see world leaders commit to halving the number of internally displaced people by 2030, UN relief chief Stephen O' Brien said on Sunday ahead of a key summit.
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners said that more than 118,000 people have fled conflict in Afghanistan during the first four months of this year, a deputy UN spokesman said here Monday.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said on Tuesday that 125 million people are in grave need of humanitarian assistance as the number of civil wars has tripled in the past 10 years.
Head of the Syrian government delegation Bashar al-Jaafari told press Tuesday that his team will leave Geneva tomorrow as planned after convening for the last time with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in the latest round of intra-Syrian proximity talks.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that severe weather conditions around Myanmar have resulted in deaths and injuries as well as large-scale damage to housing, a UN spokesman told reporters here Monday.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York on Friday for the signing ceremony of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change, her office announced Wednesday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported that significant humanitarian needs remained in Fiji two months after Cyclone Winston, a UN spokesman said here Wednesday.
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