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Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the General Assembly in New York today:

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

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its fifty-seventh session from 16 to 18 February 2022.  Due to the ongoing challenges associated with the pandemic, the meetings were held virtually.  The session was presided over by the Chair, Janet St. Laurent.  All the other members of the Committee — namely, Agus Pramono (Vice-Chair), Dorothy Bradley, Anton Kosyanenko and Imran Vanker — were in attendance.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Parfait Onanga-Anyanga of Gabon as his Special Representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU).

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as his Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Global Forum:  “Building a Human-Centred Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis”, in Geneva today:

On 8 February 2022, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2374 (2017) concerning Mali held informal consultations to consider the midterm report of the Panel of Experts on Mali, submitted in accordance with paragraph 4 of resolution 2590 (2021).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the 2022 Pyeongchang Peace Forum in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations System Staff College today: