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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary‑General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the Global Citizen Festival, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary‑General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative “Place for Peace” dinner and auction, in New York today:

Sketching out the contours of a newly agreed Constitutional Committee for Syria today, the senior United Nations official in that country urged all parties there, as well as Security Council members, to seize that new development as a “sign of hope for the long-suffering Syrian people”.

Following days of protests in Haiti, the United Nations peacekeeping mission — concerned by reports of violence and arson — says it is in discussions with local stakeholders and international partners to find a peaceful way out of the crisis.  It praised the Haitian National Police, which has done its utmost to provide security.

Multilateral cooperation remains an accepted and reliable method of managing relations between States, the President of the General Assembly emphasized today at the conclusion of the general debate of the seventy‑fourth session, as Member States exchanged their views on how to mobilize such collaboration to resolve conflict and achieve sustainable development.

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

Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ remarks to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial Meeting, in New York today:

The world needs stronger multilateralism to tackle its toughest challenges, from climate change and poverty eradication to abuses of human rights and arms proliferation, but its efforts cannot be at the expense of respect for national sovereignty, a bedrock principle of the Charter of the United Nations, speakers emphasized today as the General Assembly continued its annual general debate.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the opening ceremony of the forty-third annual meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the “Group of 77” developing countries and China, in New York today: