Press Release

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Michel Xavier Biang (Gabon):

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Post Day, observed on 9 October:

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack perpetrated on 3 October against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) near Koui through an explosive device, following which three peacekeepers from Bangladesh were killed and one wounded.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announces the appointment of Christine Stegling of Germany as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announces the appointment of Angeli Achrekar of the United States as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the Programme Branch of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

On 5 October 2022, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2374 enacted the amendments, specified with strikethrough and/or underline, in the entries below on its Sanctions List of individuals and entities.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its fifty-sixth session from 5 October to 22 November.  There will be no plenary part during the session and its seven weeks will be devoted entirely to the technical examination of submissions at the geographic information system laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, in Guimarães, Portugal, today:

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: