Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks as delivered to the Nordic Council today:

Mass graves form an “underground map of atrocity” that stretches across human history, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, stressing that while dozens of such burials were found in 2020 alone, no single, coherent human rights framework exists for the respectful management of these sites.

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

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vassily A. Nebenzia (Russian Federation):

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vassily A. Nebenzia (Russian Federation):

The following statement was issued by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary‑General António Guterres:

Warning that COVID-19 “feeds off instability”, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council today that intensified international facilitation to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations must urgently build upon recent efforts at rapprochement in the region.

A lack of ventilators and hospital beds to address COVID-19 has pushed Gaza’s overstretched medical system to the brink, the expert tasked with monitoring human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, stressing that Israel’s 53‑year blockade of the area amounts to a collective punishment banned under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

The new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, Magzhan Ilyassov, presented his credentials to the Secretariat today.

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