MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved five draft resolutions addressing the human rights situations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Myanmar, Iran, Syria and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine ...
The Security Council today failed to adopt a text, put forward by its 10 elected members, that called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and demanded the release of all hostages, on account of a negative vote cast by ...
The report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices is a distortion of reality and promotes a particular political agenda aimed at “destroying Israel’s image as a democratic State,” that country’s delegate told the Fourth ...
As the Security Council meeting of 18 November concluded, regional delegations, condemning the horrific aggression being wrought upon the Palestinian people by Israel, along with that country’s attacks against Lebanon, urged the 15‑nation organ ...
In his bi-annual briefing today to the Security Council on the situation in Libya, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) urged Member States’ cooperation in executing arrest warrants against those suspected of war crimes ...
Delegates at the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today heard Secretariat officials lay out the details behind their request for a $2.09 million appropriation to keep the Office of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for ...
Israel’s methods of war align with the characteristics of genocide, the Chair of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories told the ...
Reckoning with recent reports of the deployment of foreign troops and the authorization to use long-range weapons to strike across borders, speakers in the Security Council today discussed how best to achieve peace in Ukraine as civilians there ...
The Security Council, meeting once again amid the 19-month brutal war raging in Sudan that has led to the world’s largest displacement crisis, rejected today a draft resolution intended to bolster measures to protect civilians and increase ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, as delivered by Lidia Brito, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to the World Science Forum, in ...
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, as delivered by Muhannad Hadi, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied ...
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to a session on sustainable development and energy transition at the Group of 20 (G20) Summit, in Rio de Janeiro today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to a session on reform of global governance institutions at the Group of 20 (G20) Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered by Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, to the Security Council on Ukraine, in New York today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Barbara Woodward (United Kingdom):
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed on 25 November:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Children’s Day, observed on 20 November:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December: