MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
By a recorded vote of 139 in favour to 12 against with 19 abstentions, the General Assembly today adopted a resolution welcoming the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on Israel’s obligations in relation to the presence and ...
Countries in Central Africa are registering electoral progress and notching some security gains, even as climate shocks and increasingly sophisticated terrorist attacks continue to drive human misery across the subregion, the senior UN official ...
The Security Council today debated the future of the United Nations residual war-crimes court, established in 2010 to complete the remaining work of the Rwanda and former Yugoslavia tribunals after their closure in 2015 and 2017, including ...
As the General Assembly took up a series of resolutions regarding humanitarian and disaster relief assistance, the annual omnibus text on strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance was withdrawn — after three decades of ...
As Afghanistan faces several escalating crises and an extreme humanitarian emergency, the resilience of its people is being severely tested, senior UN officials today warned the Security Council, calling for urgent international action to ...
The General Assembly today adopted four resolutions on governance of the world’s oceans, with delegations starkly divided on whether to include references to sustainable development conferences in its annual omnibus resolution.
As Ukrainian civilians begin to feel the bite of their fourth winter under siege, speakers in the Security Council today stressed that ongoing negotiations must yield results and that the organ must play its part to alleviate the suffering.
By waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, the Russian Federation has breached every Principle set out in the Helsinki Final Act 50 years ago — the document that laid the foundation for today’s Organization for Security and Co-operation in ...
The General Assembly today underscored the vital role of oceans in global connectivity, sustainability and climate action, as it was presented several resolutions on the matter, with the 193-member body’s President highlighting that nearly all ...
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 Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the seventh United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7), in Nairobi today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the meeting on the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation, in Geneva today:
On 9 December 2025, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) removed the following entry from its Sanctions List of individuals and entities.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the high-level pledging event on the Central Emergency Response Fund, in New York today:
The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:
Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s video message for the opening of the seventh United Nations Environment Assembly, in Nairobi today:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Claudio Cordone of Italy as his new Deputy Special Envoy for Syria.