SANAA: Rebels controlling Yemen’s capital called on the United Nations on Friday to take action to end violence that has destroyed large parts of the country and to investigate bombings carried out by a Saudi-led coalition. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the Houthi movement urged the U.N. to investigate a Saudi-led airstrike… Read More »
NICOSIA: A senior United Nations official says ethnically-split Cyprus has a “historic opportunity” to reunite in 2017 and a meeting in Geneva in early January will be crucial for a peace deal that has eluded the island for decades. Eighteen months of intensive talks between the estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities will culminate at… Read More »
ZURICH: Austria’s former chancellor Werner Faymann has been named as the United Nations’ special envoy on youth unemployment, the first appointment for the 56-year-old since he quit in May. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment on Friday, saying the success of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Agenda depended on “enhancing opportunities for decent work for… Read More »
ANKARA: The European Union’s top envoy to Turkey, Hansjoerg Haber, has resigned, an official from the EU delegation in Ankara said on Tuesday (Jun 14), without giving any reason. Haber had criticised Turkey’s handling of a landmark deal with the EU on migration, and was last month summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry over his… Read More »