11 Sep 2012 - KUNAR - I am very glad that I had the opportunity to meet representatives of the authorities of theprovince and also representatives of the people, of the elders, Ulema Shura, civil society and they shared with me their concerns.
08 Aug 2012 - KABUL - In the first six months of 2012, conflict-related violence in Afghanistan continued to take a devastating toll on civilians, the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today, releasing its 2012 Midyear Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict...
08 Aug 2012 - KABUL - About a month ago a Kabul resident was enjoying a midsummer evening with his family at a hotel on a lake outside of the city. It was such a pleasant evening that the man decided he wanted to record parts of it. He slipped away to retrieve his camera. What happened next...
30 May 2012 - KABUL - Good morning to everyone and welcome to this regular meeting with the press, once again I am very grateful to the centre that we can use this excellent facility and I am thankful to you to come to this as I said earlier, to traditional meeting of UNAMA and myself...
15 May 2012 - NEW YORK - While the United Nations and its partners would continue to provide immediate humanitarian relief to Afghanistan, aid alone was not enough to deal with the conflict-torn nation’s myriad challenges, the United Nations humanitarian chief said today during a...
19 Apr 2012 - BRUSSELS - Excellencies, Secretary General, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to address your meeting today, for the first time in my current capacity. NATO, ISAF and UNAMA are separately mandated by the United Nations Security Council to cooperate, in...
01 Apr 2012 - SHEBERGHAN - Jan Kubis, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, spoke at the inauguration of a UNAMA office in Sheberghan.
Mr. Kubis said that the UN had been working in support of the people of Jawzjan province, in close partnership with the...
28 Mar 2012 - KABUL - First of all, thank you very much for coming. Good morning to everybody. Thank you also to this centre for giving us the opportunity to be here.
20 Mar 2012 - NEW YORK - Below is the statement of HE Dr Zahir Tanin, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, at the UN Security Council debate on the situation in Afghanistan.
Mr. President,
Allow me to begin by congratulating you on your assumption of...
20 Mar 2012 - NEW YORK - Thank you very much for your attention, for your time. I am very happy to be here. It’s my first briefing to the Security Council in my new capacity as the head of UNAMA and the SRSG. I have been in the country for not more than two months. So I am pretty fresh with...
16 Feb 2012 - PARIS - Ján Kubiš, Special Representative to the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, addressed the Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners.
Mr. Kubiš highlighted the Afghan Opium Survey 2011, which showed poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached 131,000 hectares...
04 Feb 2012 - KABUL - First of all let me greet you all and welcome you all here today. And we are very much honoured by your presence and by your interest.
25 Jan 2012 - KABUL - First of all, I would like to thank you very much for coming to this first press conference of myself as the new head of UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan) and the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General.
I didn’t want to postpone this...
29 Sep 2011 - KABUL - Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, today spoke to the Security Council at a quarterly meeting on the situation in Afghanistan....