Following the recommendation of the Secretary-General, after consultation with Member States, the General Assembly confirmed Achim Steiner of Germany as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a further four-year term of office beginning on 17 June.
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Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Leaders' Summit on Climate, held today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, as delivered by Ghada Waly, Executive Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), to the high-level debate of the General Assembly on “Urban Safety, Security and Good Governance: Making Crime Prevention a Priority for All”, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message marking the entry into force of the Escazú Agreement, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, observed on 26 April:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the launch of the “Second World Ocean Assessment” (WOA II) today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for International Girls in ICT Day 2021, observed on 22 April:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the twentieth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for International Mother Earth Day, observed on 22 April: