Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, observed on 15 March:

The new Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations, Ricardo Ernesto Lagorio, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed François Batalingaya of Rwanda as the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Chad, with the host Government’s approval. His start date is tomorrow.

On 16 February 2024, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolution 2713 (2023) concerning Al-Shabaab held its first informal consultations of the year to meet with the Panel of Experts pursuant to resolution 2713 (2023).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the International Day of Nowruz, observed on 21 March:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for Earth Hour, observed on 23 March:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the High-level Segment of the Sixty-seventh Commission on Narcotic Drugs, in Vienna today:

In observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March), as well as the final year of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), the United Nations will host two new exhibits highlighting the horrors of slavery and acts of resistance: “Who were the enslaved? Commemorating lives under enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope”, 19 March-25 April, Visitors’ Lobby, United Nations Headquarters, and “Ibo Landing”, 25-28 March, Vienna Café, United Nations Headquarters.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message on the Human Development Report 2023-24: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the town hall meeting with civil society on the occasion of the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York today: