Press Release

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the High-Level Meeting on Financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in New York today:

As part of the ongoing Stand up for someone’s rights today campaign, and in the lead-up to the 2018 seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations is launching a multilingual video campaign to raise awareness of basic human rights.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council on the agenda item “Maintenance of international peace and security: human rights and the prevention of armed conflict”, in New York today:

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

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Mohamed Ali Alhakim of Iraq as the next Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Olga Algayerova of Slovakia as the next Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the panel on empowering people through digital technologies for social and financial inclusion, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Vera Songwe of Cameroon as the next Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).  She will succeed Carlos Lopes of Guinea-Bissau, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his commitment and dedicated service to the Organization.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Ethics Panel, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed's remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the National Model United Nations, in New York today: