Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, observed on 25 March:

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed's video message to the Young African Women Fellows programme, a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the African Union Commission, held today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Linda Thomas-Greenfield (United States):

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council debate on conflict and food security, held today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the launch of the “Only Together” Campaign, held today:

The world is facing multiple conflict-driven famines, aggravated by climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, and without immediate action, millions of people — from the Sahel to Afghanistan — could well find themselves on the brink of extreme hunger and death this year, António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, warned the Security Council today.

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ statement on the COVID‑19 pandemic, one year on, today:

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s video message on the occasion of the launching ceremony of the ICESCO Year of Women 2021, today:

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as delivered, to the Public Discussion with European Parliament Vice-President Heidi Hautala, on the theme “10 years to go until 2030:  Decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals”, held today:

While the crisis in Ukraine remains Europe’s most serious security challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic — which was declared as such a year ago this month — has occasioned worrying setbacks for democracy and human rights in the region which cannot go ignored, the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said today, during a videoconference meeting of the Security Council.