MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
As conflicts proliferate and risks to civilians mount around the globe, embracing the “responsibility to protect” — an international norm aimed at preventing mass atrocity crimes, such as genocide — is more crucial today than ever before, the ...
In an emergency session following resumed confrontation between the United States and Iran, the Security Council today heard of the need to implement the peace deal recently reached between the two countries lest the situation spiral further.
A resolution concerning the latest review of the Organization’s counter-terrorism strategy took a vote in the General Assembly today, breaking a chain of consensus adoptions, with some delegates calling the text outdated and repetitive, while ...
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today reached a significant breakthrough in addressing the United Nations’ chronic liquidity crisis, agreeing to end the practice of “returning” funds that were never collected from Member ...
The General Assembly today agreed to end the practice of “returning” funds that were never collected from Member States as it adopted all texts forwarded by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).
The Security Council today renewed its sanctions regime on the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1 July 2027 and extended the mandate of the Group of Experts responsible for overseeing its implementation until 1 August 2027.
Despite the ceasefire announced eight months ago, humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip remain bleak, with 70 per cent of the population lacking dignified housing, sanitation systems destroyed and Israel still blocking much of the food and ...
Meeting following a reported strike on a bus transporting Belarusian civilians in the Russian Federation, many speakers in the Security Council today called for an independent investigation to establish the facts surrounding this incident as ...
“Stay the course towards a durable peace,” the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo urged all actors in that country, where violence continues despite a ceasefire agreement.
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as prepared for delivery by Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet, to the plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the eighteenth report of the Secretary-General on the responsibility ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the International Law Commission, in Geneva today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the opening of the First Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance, in Geneva today:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Edward (Ted) Chaiban of Lebanon as Deputy Executive Director, Programme of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), effective 1 January 2027.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, observed on 11 July:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in London, in the United Kingdom, late on Monday afternoon, 22 June, to attend a series of events that took place during the London Climate Action Week.
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its sixty-seventh session from 6 July to 7 August at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Dmytro Shlapachenko of Ukraine as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan, with the host Government’s approval.
The new Permanent Representative of Madagascar to the United Nations, Lanto Rahajarizafy, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ opening remarks to the press conference with the Co-Chairs of the Independent Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, in New York today:
