MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is moving along “a narrowing path” that could lead either towards institutional sustainability and economic revitalization, or stagnation and deconstruction of State institutions, the Security Council heard today from the ...
With the window to 2030 “narrowing”, the United Nations Forum on Forests opened its twenty-first session by launching the Global Forest Goals Report 2026, calling for faster action, stronger partnerships and scaled-up resources to keep agreed ...
Concluding the regular part of its forty-eighth session today, the Committee on Information adopted its report containing two resolutions concerning United Nations information activities that the General Assembly will vote on later this year.
The current cash balance for the United Nations regular budget is “only sufficient to meet legal obligations through the middle of August” — not through December — the Organization’s top management official told the Fifth Committee ...
Safeguard open access for emerging technologies, leading scientists from around the world underscored today at a United Nations forum on how their work can support development.
The conflict in Sudan and instability in South Sudan are delaying agreement on Abyei’s final status and degrading conditions in the demilitarized area, United Nations officials warned the Security Council today, as delegates called for the ...
The crucial question about artificial intelligence is not how powerful it is, but who it is being designed for, the United Nations heard today from a scientist whose life and work experience spans multiple continents.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened its May session today with Member States focused on the Secretary-General’s proposed $5.23 billion budget for peacekeeping missions — a 7.5 per cent reduction from the previous period — ...
The largest global gathering of Indigenous Peoples concluded its annual session at the United Nations today, adopting a number of recommendations, one of which drew attention to how Indigenous Peoples’ health is “cultural, collective and rooted ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
On 13 May 2026, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, convened the tenth African Union–United Nations Annual Conference at the African Union ...
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for Africa Day, observed on 25 May:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
The text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening of the tenth annual United Nations-African Union High-Level Dialogue is not available in English.
The text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the at beginning of the meeting with the President of France and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission is not available in English.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the twelfth meeting of the Global Counter-Terrorism Compact, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for Biological Diversity, under the theme “Acting locally for global impact”, observed on 22 May:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, observed on 17 May:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, under the theme “Digital lifelines: strengthening resilience in a connected world”, observed on 17 May:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening ceremony of the Africa Forward Summit, in Nairobi today: