Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the informal briefing of the General Assembly, in New York today:

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its fifty-second session from 27 January to 13 March.

The United Nations Department of Global Communications will organize several events on 27 January to observe the 2020 International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust under the theme “75 years after Auschwitz — Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice”.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks to the Harvard Business School event on “Africa rising:  understanding business, entrepreneurship and the complexities of a continent”, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today:

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

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Daniel Sidiki Traoré of Burkina Faso as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

Following are UN Secretary-General remarks at the opening of the exhibition marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, in New York today:

On 10 January 2020, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) held informal consultations to consider the final report of the Panel of Experts, submitted in accordance with paragraph 6 of resolution 2456 (2019).

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the International Conference on Libya, in Berlin today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Dang Dinh Quy (Viet Nam):