Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, observed on 2 December:

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its sixty-second session at United Nations Headquarters from 7 October to 22 November 2024.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the high-level meeting to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, today:

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Rio de Janeiro from Baku, Azerbaijan, early on Saturday morning, 16 November. He was in Brazil to attend the annual Group of 20 (G20) meeting, as he does every year.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the International Cooperative Alliance Global Conference, in New Delhi today:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Hélène N’Garnim-Ganga of Chad as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Côte d’Ivoire, with the host Government’s approval, on 24 November.

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message, delivered by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), to the Fifth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti‑Personnel Mines, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary General António Guterres’ video message to the International Finance Forum 2024 annual meeting, in Hong Kong, special administrative region of China, today:

The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today: