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Urging Strict Oversight of UN Resources amid Severe Liquidity Crisis, Fifth Committee Delegates Consider Proposed $5.5 Billion Peacekeeping Budget, as Session Resumes

Secretary-General: Press Release

2 February 2021

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Secretary-General, Concerned about Situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region, Calls for Sustained, Impartial and Unimpeded Humanitarian Access

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

31 January 2021

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Secretary-General Condemns Detention of Myanmar Political Leaders as ‘Serious Blow to Democratic Reforms’, Urges Peaceful Dialogue

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

28 January 2021

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United States Decision to Restore Population Fund Contributions Sends Powerful Message that Rights of Women, Girls Matter, Secretary-General Stresses

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

28 January 2021

SG/SM/20561

Secretary-General Urges All Actors to Respect Myanmar Election Outcomes

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

28 January 2021

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Following Year of Death, Disaster, Despair, Secretary-General Outlines Priorities for 2021, Telling General Assembly ‘Crisis Gives Rise to Change’

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the General Assembly’s informal briefing to Member States on priorities for 2021, held today:

27 January 2021

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Secretary-General Calls for Early Action to Avoid World of ‘Vaccine Haves and Have-Nots’, at African COVID-19 Strategy Meeting

Following is the text of UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ video message to the high-level webinar on the African COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Deployment Strategy, held today:

27 January 2021

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Secretary-General Calls for Efforts against Resurgent Xenophobia, Marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, observed today:

27 January 2021

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Attempts to ‘Deny, Distort and Rewrite’ Holocaust History Gaining Global Currency, Secretary-General Warns, Calling for Facts on International Remembrance Day

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to a virtual meeting on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, held today:

26 January 2021

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Peacebuilding Fund Engagement Critical to Preventing Further Global Turmoil, Secretary-General Tells Donor Conference, Citing High Impact, Flexibility

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered, to the High-Level Replenishment Conference for the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, today:

26 January 2021

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Secretary-General Appoints Khassim Diagne of Senegal Deputy Special Representative for Protection, Operations in Democratic Republic of Congo

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Khassim Diagne of Senegal as his Deputy Special Representative for Protection and Operations in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).