Victor Angelo

Ban Ki-moon has left the UN Secretariat building today, at the end of his second mandate. He spent the last ten years at the UN helm. ...

António Guterres´s swearing-in ceremony took place today. He is now ready to take over from Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2017. And he has clea...

Today the UN Secretary-general expressed his concerns regarding the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied territories. An...

The negotiations on Syria are scheduled for next week in Geneva. The formal leadership of the process rests with the UN. And it is in the ...

In my last posting, I suggested the UN Secretary-General should dispatch without delay a Personal Envoy for political consultations with t...

John Kerry, the US State Secretary, and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister met today in Vienna with their counterparts from Turke...

The UN Secretary-General has just forced his Special Representative in the Central African Republic (CAR) to resign. The reason is directl...

Pope Francis has been very clear about the immigration issue, particularly the massive loss of life and the incredible human costs of the ...

At the UN headquarters there is a bit of a fight about the position of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, which is official...

Have we thought that a collateral damage resulting from the Ukraine crisis is related to the election of the new UN Secretary-general? Up ...

John Kerry, who was visiting Luanda today, has shown he is deeply concerned with the crisis situation in South Sudan. The civil war is goi...

It is always a serious mistake to ignore the feelings of each part to a conflict. Conflicts do escalate because of feelings, matters o...

Throughout the day there was a lot of controversy about Iran´s participation in the Geneva II talks on Syria, scheduled for Wednesday. The...

The UN Security Council approved an additional deployment of 6,000 troops to augment the peacekeeping presence of the mission in South Sud...

Syria continues to occupy the front pages. It will also be the key matter on the table at the G20 meeting this week in St. Petersburg on 5 ...

Mali’s internal situation continues to be very fragile. The key international partners of this country need to coordinate better among th...