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22 May 2012 – Describing it as a “milestone” achievement, the United Nations envoy to Libya today welcomed the successful conclusion of voter registration ahead of the country’s legislative election scheduled for next month.

“Today’s accomplishment is a major milestone and a source of pride for the Libyan people who endured 42 years of denial of political rights,” said the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ian Martin, in a statement.

22 May 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned today an attack against Mali’s interim President Dioncounda Traoré, which reportedly left the leader with head injuries.

“The Secretary-General urges the Malian military and security institutions to fulfil their primary function of protecting the State and its legitimate interim authorities, and underscores the need for those responsible for the attack to be held accountable,” Mr. Ban’s spokesperson said in a statement.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people of Timor-Leste on the 10th anniversary of their country’s restoration of independence, hailing the “impressive advances” over the past decade, and noting that national institutions are now able to safeguard stability and democracy.

21 May 2012 – While re-affirming the continued engagement of the United Nations in Afghanistan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the country’s international partners to remain committed to supporting the Central Asian nation even as they pull out their troops.

18 mai 2012 – Afin de poursuivre les efforts de l'ONU pour restaurer l'ordre constitutionnel en Guinée-Bissau et au Mali, le Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Saïd Djinnit, va participer au Conseil de médiation et de sécurité de la Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (CEDEAO), qui aura lieu à Abidjan le 19 mai.

17 May 2012 – The members of the United Nations Security Council will leave New York on Friday for an official mission to West Africa.

The 15 ambassadors will visit Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone, a UN spokesperson told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York.

In Liberia, they will review progress in the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), in addition to meeting President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

16 May 2012 – A group of UN military observers who stayed overnight in the Syrian town of Khan Cheikhoun, following a bomb blast which damaged some of their vehicles, have returned to their team site, a UN spokesperson said today.

“None of the observers were injured or hurt, they stayed in the area overnight and they were able, this morning, to leave and go back to their headquarters in Hama,” a spokesperson for the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), Hassan Siklawi, said in an interview.

15 May 2012 – Three vehicles belonging to a convoy of UN observers in Syria were damaged in a bomb blast near the city of Hama today, according to a UN spokesperson.

The three vehicles were part of a four-vehicle convoy of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), which was in Khan Cheikhoun, when an improvised explosive device was detonated around mid-afternoon local time, Ahmad Fawzi, the spokesperson for the Joint Special Envoy for the UN and the League of Arab States for the Syrian crisis, Kofi Annan, told reporters in Geneva today.

14 May 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is concerned at the rising tensions and disruption of daily life in parts of Nepal linked to the debate over its future federal system and at the failure, so far, of political leaders to forge a consensus on their outstanding differences in the country’s constitution-making process, according to his spokesperson.