Secretary-General

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

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

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, delivered by Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the Civil Society Forum held in conjunction with the United Nations Commission for Social Development, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Toby Lanzer of the United Kingdom as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum in New York today:

António Guterres of Portugal, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations, took office on 1 January 2017.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s remarks to the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa today:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Switzerland on Tuesday, 17 January, for a visit to Geneva and to Davos.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the high-level event on the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa today:

The African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the United Nations held a joint consultative meeting on South Sudan on 29 January on the margins of the African Union twenty-eighth Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa.