Development

Following is UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ message to the Sustainable Development Goals Alliance Portugal, in Lisbon today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Group of 77 handover ceremony in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the report of the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Migrants Day, observed on 18 December:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the International Migrant Day and Global Migration Film Festival Event, in New York, today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for “Giving Tuesday”, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the report of the High-level Panel on Access to Medicines — “Promoting Innovation and Access to Health Technologies”, in New York today:

At a United Nations pledging conference today, 24 countries committed to provide approximately $1.09 billion towards development activities.  The amount represented an increase of more than of fourteen-fold over those commitments made in 2015.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mourad Wahba of Egypt as Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Committee on Food Security, in Rome today: