Secretary-General: Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the General Assembly on the thirty-first commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, in New York today:

Following is the text [translated from the Spanish] of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video tribute to Federico Mayor Zaragoza, in Paris today:

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the 150th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly, in Tashkent today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary General António Guterres’ video message to the International Conference on Central Asia in the Face of Global Challenges; Consolidation for Common Prosperity, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan today:

The Secretary-General arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the afternoon of 13 March.

Following is the text of UN Secretary General António Guterres’ video message to the Club de Madrid Annual Policy Dialogue, in Nairobi today:

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, observed on 7 April:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the sixth meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons, held in Tokyo today:

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

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of James Swan of the United States as his Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNTMIS). The Secretary-General expresses his gratitude to Mr. Swan for acting as Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)/UNTMIS since May 2024, and is pleased that Mr. Swan accepted to continue to lead the United Nations in Somalia during this critical period.