Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered, to the General Assembly, on the review of United Nations peace operations, in New York today:
After taking stock of progress towards Security Council reform and looking ahead to future negotiations on that topic, the General Assembly today adopted several texts relating to upcoming reviews and meetings, as well as to its Second Committee (Economic and Financial) and Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization).
Following fraught deliberations on its reappointment of the standing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for another four-year term, the General Assembly today also adopted several draft texts concerning sustainable development, peace and international law.
As experts warned that road traffic crashes have become a silent pandemic and called on the international community to build transport systems that put people first, a text in which Governments around the world committed to improve road safety was put to a vote in the General Assembly today.
The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), successfully convened the 2026 Conference on the Question of Jerusalem on 18 July in Cairo, Egypt.
In a high-level meeting to review implementation of the New Urban Agenda 10 years after its adoption, speakers in the General Assembly today both underscored the connection between urban policy and sustainable development and urged renewed action towards both given flagging global progress.
