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22 mai 2012 – En visite en Côte d'Ivoire, les membres du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies ont tenu mardi à Guiglo une séance de travail avec le corps préfectoral, les autorités administratives, politiques, traditionnelles et communautaires de la ville, située dans l'ouest du pays.

L'objectif de cette tournée dans l'Ouest ivoirien, la région qui a payé le plus lourd tribut aux différents conflits qui ont secoué le pays, était pour les membres du Conseil de constater par eux mêmes la situation sur place.

22 May 2012 – On the latest leg of their mission to West Africa, the fifteen members of the Security Council today heard from Ivorian refugees who relayed their stories of survival and expressed their concerns.

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 – While commending the work of a United Nations commission trying to improve access to life-saving medicines, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that much remains to be done to save the lives of the 800 women and more than 20,000 children who die every day from preventable causes.

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.

Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.

“I understand that the country as a whole wants to look to the future, instead of dwelling on the past, but there can be no lasting peace without security and peace for women,” the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Margot Wallström, said in a statement at the end of a four-day visit – her first – to the South American country.

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.

The United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned a terrorist attack in the city of Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, which reportedly killed at least 96 soldiers and wounded more than 300 people.

“This criminal act cannot be justified by any cause,” Mr. Ban’s spokesperson said in a statement. “Its perpetrators must be held accountable.”

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 May 2012 – Amid ongoing violence in parts of Syria, the presence of UN military observers on the ground has had an overall calming effect in their areas of deployment in the Middle Eastern country, the head of the UN observer force said today.

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 mai 2012 – Une délégation du Conseil de sécurité va s'envoler vendredi de New York pour une tournée dans trois pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, le Libéria, la Côte d'Ivoire et le Sierra Leone, a indiqué jeudi le porte-parole du Secrétaire général.

Au Libéria, la délégation examinera les progrès réalisés dans la mise en œuvre du mandat de la Mission des Nations Unies au Libéria (MINUL) et rencontrera la Présidente libérienne Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

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 – The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief facing charges of genocide and other war crimes, got under way today in the United Nations tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.

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.

16 mai 2012 – Le nombre de femmes qui meurent pendant la grossesse et des suites de complications lors de l'accouchement a diminué de presque la moitié depuis 20 ans, selon des estimations publiées mercredi par l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), le Fonds des Nations Unies pour la population (FNUAP), le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF) et la Banque mondiale.

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.

15 May 2012 – The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, has welcomed the agreement reached to end the hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.

Mr. Serry “urges all involved to implement the agreement in good faith and promptly,” according to a statement issued today in Jerusalem.

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.

14 May 2012 – The Security Council has strongly condemned today’s attack on the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which at least 11 Pakistani peacekeepers were seriously wounded.

Seven peacekeepers sustained bullet wounds and several others were injured after being hit with stones when a group of some 1,000 people surrounded their base in the Bunyiakiri area of South Kivu province, according to the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO).