In Syria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports in the north-east of the country the UN carried out a cross-line inter-agency assessment mission to Al-Kisrah district in Deir-ez-Zor, and that is the first such mission since 2018.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Anna Marttinen-Pont of Finland as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bolivia, with the host Government’s approval. Her start date was 1 September.

The Security Council’s programme of work for September — a “special challenge” due to its intersection with both the General Assembly’s High-level Week and the Summit of the Future — will focus on reinforcing weakening trust between nations and respect for international law, its President for the month told reporters at a Headquarters press conference today.

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People met this afternoon to hear a report from the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks for the workshop on artificial intelligence (AI) and capacity-building, in Shanghai, China today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Bled Strategic Forum, held in Slovenia today:

The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the sixth report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Central African Republic (S/2024/93), agreed to address the following messages through a public statement by the Chair of the Working Group.

The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the sixth report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Somalia (S/2022/397), agreed to address the following messages through a public statement by the Chair of the Working Group.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Popular Consultation in Timor-Leste, in Dili today:

In southern Africa, humanitarian personnel report that the region is experiencing severe food insecurity due to an El Niño-induced drought. More than 1.1 million children under the age of 5 are facing severe acute malnutrition in 12 countries.