MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
As it prepares to hold elections, the Central African Republic stands at a delicate juncture, and international support is key to consolidate its unique opportunity to strengthen democracy and national reconciliation, the Security Council heard ...
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today approved a budget of nearly $5.4 billion to cover the financing needs of about a dozen peacekeeping missions, two service centres and support staff at Headquarters from 1 July 2025 to 30 ...
In the wake of unprecedented violence against children in 2024, the Security Council heard today that the world is failing to protect them from the horrors of war — and that urgent action is needed to correct this course — during a day-long ...
As the General Assembly marked the twentieth anniversary of the responsibility to protect, the UN Chief emphasized that the principle remains a moral imperative amid growing global turmoil, escalating identity-based violence, widespread breaches ...
The Security Council met today to consider the latest developments related to the implementation of its resolution 2231 (2015), which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear programme, following a brokered ...
Libya is yet again at a critical juncture, the UN’s top official for the country told the Security Council today, stressing international support is indispensable to Tripoli’s attempt to turn a fragile truce into a permanent ceasefire and form a ...
Concluding its seventy-ninth session today, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) — while not taking a decision on its agenda item concerning revitalization of its work — heard that its working methods must be improved despite a lack of ...
Highlighting Afghanistan’s newly promulgated discriminatory law on the “propagation of virtue and prevention of vice”, senior United Nations officials briefed the Council today on continuing engagement with its de facto authorities without ...
The United States’ bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities marks a “perilous turn” in an already volatile region, Secretary-General António Guterres warned during an emergency meeting of the Security Council today. The United Nations’ top nuclear ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (Guyana):
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the commemorative plenary meeting of the General Assembly to observe the eightieth anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, in New York today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Gavi High-level Pledging Summit, in Brussels today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the General Assembly on the twentieth anniversary of the responsibility to protect, in New York today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (Guyana):
On Wednesday, 11 June, the Secretary-General met with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Internet Governance Forum, in Lillestrøm, Norway, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the UN Charter Day exhibition, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
On 12 December 2024, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya held informal consultations to meet with a delegation from the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), an entity subject to the assets ...