United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Vivian van de Perre of the Netherlands as his Deputy Special Representative for Protection and Operations in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).
Three senior United Nations officials warned the Security Council today of imminent famine in the Gaza Strip, urging immediate action to avert humanitarian disaster in a territory where many Council members alleged the use of hunger as a weapon of war.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (Guyana):
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness, observed on 5 March:
The Security Council met this morning to hear a briefing on the situation in Syria. Addressing the Council were Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) resumed its seventy-eighth session amid the cash crunch confronting the Organization, delegates pressed all States to pay their assessed contributions and ensure that the Organization’s staff represents the world it serves, in terms of geographical representation and gender parity.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UN Mission there reports that after a brief lull in violence in the country, there were renewed and intense clashes on 25 February between the M23 armed group and the Congolese armed forces, west of the town of Sake in North Kivu.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Edmond Mulet of Guatemala to lead the Independent Strategic Review of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) mandated by Security Council resolution 2709 (2023).
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the launch of the report of the High-level Panel on the Teaching Profession, in Johannesburg today:
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the memorial service for President Hage G. Geingob of Namibia, in Windhoek today:
