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The 16th Advisory Board meeting of the Â鶹APP Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) took place in Riyadh on 17 April in the presence of the Â鶹APP Secretary-General, Mr. Ant¨®nio Guterres and the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, His Excellency Mr. Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir¡­

Monday, 12 March 2018 - 9:00am On 12 March 2018, on the occasion of the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women, the UN Office of Counter-Terrorismand UN Women organized a panel discussion on the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Advancing Women¡¯s Leadership and Participation. The panel¡­

On 12 March 2018, on the occasion of the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women, the Â鶹APP Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and UN Women organized a panel discussion on the Â鶹APP Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Advancing Women¡¯s Leadership and Participation. The panel¡­

The prospect of non-State actors, including terrorist groups and their supporters, gaining access to and using weapons and materials of mass destruction is a serious threat to international peace and security. The international community must be ready to respond to an attack involving the use of¡­

Friday, 22 September 2017 - 12:00am UN Photo/Rick Bajorna | Meeting at the level of ministers for foreign affairs, the Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 2309 (2016) on aviation security and safety. The global aviation system is of vital importance to economic development and prosperity¡­

Thursday, 14 September 2017 - 12:00am UNODC | UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yury Fedotov (centre) participated in a special event in Vienna on 14 September 2017 for UNODC¡¯s 20th anniversary. Marking the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Â鶹APP Office¡­

Wednesday, 13 September 2017 - 12:00am OCHA/Ivo Brandau | At the site for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mellia, Chad. While the efforts of the Governments in Africa's Lake Chad Basin have diminished Boko Haram's combat capacity in the region, the terrorist group has changed its tactics¡­

Tuesday, 15 August 2017 - 12:00am OCHA/Ivo Brandau | At the site for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mellia, Chad. The joint task force by the so-called Group of Five (G5) ¨C Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger ¨C to tackle the threat of terrorism in Africa's Sahel region is now¡­

UNHCR/Bassam Diab | The scale of destruction in Aleppo is massive and heavy equipment is urgently needed to remove debris. A number of ¡°disillusioned and disappointed¡± foreign terrorist fighters left Syria and returned to their countries of origin when they found these groups hardly make good on¡­

UN Photo/Kim Haughton | The UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution on preventing terrorists from acquiring weapons. The Â鶹APP Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at preventing terrorists from acquiring weapons, particularly small arms and light weapons¡­

UNICEF/Sylvain Cherkaoui | Children affected by violence attend temporary schools in the refugee camp of Kabelewa. Forced displacement in the Diffa region, Niger's poorest, is becoming regular and is conducted by the armed group Boko Haram. Â鶹APP Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres has¡­

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 - 9:00am Â鶹APP Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres has appointed Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov of the Russian Federation as Under-Secretary-General of the newly created Â鶹APP Counter-Terrorism Office as established by the General Assembly resolution 71/291 on¡­