Press releases

  • Secretary-General's Message for World Press Freedom Day 2016
    03 May 2016 - Human rights, democratic societies and sustainable development depend on the free flow of information.  And the right to information depends on press freedom.  Each year, we observe World Press Freedom Day to emphasize these fundamental principles, to protect the independence of the media and to honour media workers who risk and have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.
  • UN Secretary-General's Message on the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
    04 Apr 2016 - Mine action is critical for an effective humanitarian response in conflict and post-conflict situations.  This is a central message of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.  
  • Secretary-General Appoints Elizabeth Spehar of Canada Special Representative for Cyprus
    30 Mar 2016 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Elizabeth Spehar of Canada as his new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Ms. Spehar will also perform the function of Deputy to the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus. 
  • Statement by the Technical Committee on Gender Equality on the Occasion of International Women's Day 2016
    08 Mar 2016 - The Gender Equality Technical Committee (GETC) on the occasion of the International Women’s Day joins in celebration with millions of women around the globe who have been struggling across time and space against all forms of discrimination, exclusion, marginalization, violence and for equal rights and opportunities for all.
  • UN efforts in Cyprus and Role of Religious Leaders Acknowledged
    24 Feb 2016 - Margot Wallström, Minister for Foreign Affairs, welcomed the United Nations efforts to reach an agreement on the Cyprus issue and acknowledged the role of religious leaders of Cyprus in the reconciliation process at the Parliamentary debate on Foreign Affairs 2016 in the Swedish Parliament this morning, Wednesday 24.2.16.
  • Technical Committee on Crime and Criminal Matters holds seminar on policing a federal country
    17 Feb 2016 - In the context of the mandate given to the Technical Committees and in the absence of local experience about federal policing, the Technical Committee on Crime and Criminal Matters organized on the 17th of February at its Joint Contact Room in the buffer zone for its members a seminar on “Policing a federal country: challenges and benefits” with the support of the United Nations. 
  • UNFICYP Sector Four Medal Parade
    16 Feb 2016 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Ms. Lisa Buttenheim, on 16 February awarded troops from UNFICYP’s Sector 4 on 16 February with UN medals for their work in Cyprus.

  • UNHCR aids refugees on the Greek Islands (file photo)

    UNHCR welcomes the relocation of asylum-seekers from Greece to Cyprus
    12 Feb 2016 - The first group of asylum-seekers relocated from Greece arrived in Cyprus yesterday afternoon. The six asylum-seekers are from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea and their transfer to Cyprus is part of the EU relocation programme agreed by the European Union institutions and a number of Member States in September 2015.  Under this scheme, Cyprus has pledged to accept the relocation of 440 asylum-seekers from Greece and Italy.
  • Religious leaders of Cyprus visit the Laboratory of the Committee on Missing Persons and record a joint appeal
    08 Feb 2016 - Today, His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Nova Justinia and All Cyprus and His Excellency Dr Talip Atalay, Mufti of Cyprus, together with the representative of His Eminence Archbishop Nareg of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church of Cyprus, His Excellency Archbishop Youssef Soueif of the Maronite Church of Cyprus also representing the Latin Patriarchal Vicar and Representative of the Apostolic Nunciature in Cyprus, visited the Anthropological laboratory of the Committee on Missing
  • Kyrenia Shipwreck Gallery Upgrading to start soon
    02 Feb 2016 - The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, the European Commission, the Honor Frost Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme are pleased to announce the startup of the project "Upgrading of the Kyrenia Shipwreck Gallery within the Kyrenia Castle” and the conservation of the most important items of its collection.

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