Netanyahu cancels UN deal to resettle African migrants
UTV | JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled an agreement with the UN on Tuesday to resettle thousands of African migrants after pressure...
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UN chief António Guterres ‘deeply alarmed’ by eastern Ghouta violence
UTV | COLOMBO – UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday said he was “deeply alarmed” by the escalating violence in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta enclave after...
UN: Six Syria enclave hospitals bombed in two days
UTV | NEW YORK – Six hospitals have been struck over two days in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, putting three out...
UN chief set to appoint UK’s Griffiths as Yemen envoy
UTV | SANA – War-wracked Yemen is what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council...
UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson to visit Sri Lanka
(UDHAYAM, GENEVA) – The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson will undertake an official visit to Sri Lanka from...
First Replacement Air Force Group leaves for UN mission in Sudan
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – 56 Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) personnel left the country as the first replacement group of the SLAF Aviation Unit under the...
Ambassador Kariyawasam re-elected to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States of America (USA), Prasad Kariyawasam, who has been a member of the United Nations Committee...
President congratulates the new UN Envoy on Youth
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake, who has been appointed as the new United Nations (UN) Envoy on Youth by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres...
Mahinda-Chandrika Together At UN Vesak Celebrations
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Former Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chandrika Bandaranaike are seen seated together at the inauguration of the UN Vesak Day at the BMICH...
Foreign Minister meets UN Chief
(UDHAYAM, GENEVA) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera met with the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres yesterday (27th Feb.) in Geneva. This was...