Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) with with Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, at the ceremony marking the closure of the UN Integrated Peace Building Mission in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL), and the transfer of its responsibilities to the UN country team.
After more than 15 years of successive peace operations, the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone, the last United Nations Mission in the country, is closing at the end of March 2014.
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Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
The Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) is at the heart of the UN mission to prevent and resolve violent conflict and build lasting peace around the world.
