Secretary-General: Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Sulaimani Forum, in Baghdad, today:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Abdallah Al Dardari of Syria as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Women’s Civil Society Town Hall, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in Interlaken, Switzerland, today:

​​​​​​​Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the opening of the one-hundred-forty-sixth Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in Manama, Bahrain, today:

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

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Baghdad just after midnight on Wednesday, 1 March.

Secretary-General António Guterres departed New York on Monday, 6 March, en route to Ukraine via Poland.  He arrived in Kyiv very early on Wednesday morning to begin his third visit to Ukraine in the past year.

​​​​​​​The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Doha, Qatar from Iraq after midnight on Thursday, 3 March.