Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, held in Paris today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the press on extreme heat, in New York today:

The text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Opening of the Paris Summit on Sport for Sustainable Development is not available in English.  For the French text, please see https://press.un.org/fr/2024/sgsm22318.doc.htm.

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

The Board held its seventy-eighth regular session in New York on 23 and 24 July.

On 15 July, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti held a briefing to Member States during which the Panel of Experts briefed on its interim report dated 29 March (document S/2024/253).

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Milbert Dongjoon Shin of the United States as his new Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the launch of the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Financing to End Hunger, Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in All its Forms, in Rio de Janeiro today:

From 25 to 28 June, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and the Government of China hosted the fourth “Training Course for UN Security Council resolution 1540 Points of Contact in the Asia-Pacific Region” in Beijing, China.

Following is the statement of the Bureau of the General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People: