Press Release

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Muscat on the evening of Sunday, 14 December.

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Baghdad on Saturday, 13 December where he attended a ceremony organized by the Iraqi Government to mark the closure, after 22 years, of the UN political mission in Iraq, known as the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Riyadh in the evening of Saturday, 13 December.

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday, 10 December, for an official visit to Saudi Arabia.

The new Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations, Ihab Moustafa Awad Moustafa, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the International Conference on the Global Partnership against Online Scams, held in Bangkok today:

On 3 December 2025, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan met to hear a briefing by the Panel of Experts on the Sudan on the Panel’s work programme for 2025-2026.

On 11 November 2025, the Coordinator of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan briefed the members of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015), in connection with the Panel’s interim report submitted in pursuance of paragraph 18 of resolution 2781 (2025).

NEW YORK, 16 December (Office of Legal Affairs) — The United Nations General Assembly adopted yesterday the United Nations Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents, a landmark treaty that extends the long-established benefits of maritime bills of lading to all modes of transport. For the first time in history, goods carried by road, rail, air or sea could be represented by a single negotiable document — on paper or in electronic form.

After the examination of the ninth report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2024/705) and the adoption of conclusions on the report, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed to address the following messages through a public statement by the Chair of the Working Group.