General Assembly: Press Release

On 6 June 2024, the United Nations General Assembly elected Philemon Yang of Cameroon as President of its seventy-ninth session, which runs from September 2024 until September 2025.

Following are Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York today:

Following are Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the closing of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York today:

Following is the statement of the Bureau of the General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the General Assembly observance of Nelson Mandela International Day, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, delivered on behalf of the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly’s annual review of HIV/AIDS, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the election of the President of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks on the death of the President of Iran, in New York today:

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:

The Special Committee on Decolonization will hold the Caribbean Regional Seminar in Caracas, from 14 to 16 May within the framework of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2021-2030).