Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Doha, Qatar from New York on Monday afternoon, 1 May.

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Government of Japan are calling on young people to apply for an innovative learning programme that will empower them to make their contribution to a world free of nuclear weapons.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the 2023 Asian Leadership Conference, in Seoul today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the eighth International Wildland Fire Conference, in Porto today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the seventh Austrian World Summit, in Vienna today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the seventy-ninth session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), held in Bangkok today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the fifth Session of the Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, in The Hague today:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Adam Abdelmoula of Sudan as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Syria.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Major General Humphrey Nyone of Zambia as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, observed on 17 May: