MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
The Security Council today decided to renew the long-standing United Nations peacekeeping presence in Cyprus for another year, underscoring the need to avoid any unilateral actions that could undermine the prospects for a peaceful settlement.
A subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its annual session today.
Amid escalating conflicts, widening geopolitical divisions and deepening climate crisis, the Peacebuilding Commission is “more critical than ever”, said the UN Chief, stressing that the Pact for the Future charts a course to reforming ...
The General Assembly today adopted a resolution stressing the importance of the United Nations collaboration with the Portuguese-speaking world as it also heard speakers highlight the need to boost cooperation to address the particular ...
As the Security Council convened an emergency meeting for the second time in three days to address the worsening situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a senior United Nations official warned that escalating attacks by the 23 March ...
The implementation of Isreal’s legislation on 30 January — curtailing the operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — will undermine the ceasefire and sabotage Gaza’s recovery and ...
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court briefed the Security Council today on the imminent new applications for arrest warrants concerning the ongoing violence in Darfur, underscoring the need to reinforce the bond between the two ...
The Security Council today noted that the upcoming review of the UN peacebuilding architecture in 2025 will be the fourth, marking the structure’s twentieth anniversary.
Holding an emergency meeting following advances by the 23 March Movement, or M23, towards the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and concurrent attacks on United Nations peacekeepers there, the Security Council heard today that ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
The following statement was issued today by the Bureau of the General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:
On Monday, 20 January, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres departed New York for Switzerland. He arrived in Davos on Tuesday morning to attend the annual World Economic Forum.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Beirut, Lebanon, on 16 January.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Human Fraternity, observed on 4 February:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening of the ambassadorial-level formal meeting on the annual report and election of officers of the Peacebuilding Commission, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Ulisses de Mesquita Gomes of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of ...
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the opening of the African Heads of State Energy Summit, in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message on the occasion of the Chinese Lunar New Year 2025, observed on 29 January:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks to the panel on “Policies and Reforms for Transforming African Energy” at the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, in Dar es Salaam today: