The new Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, Antonio Manuel Revilla Lagdameo, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The General Assembly on 8 September decided to establish a United Nations Office on Youth Affairs. The new office will give the Organization a dedicated office to support the 1.2 billion young people in the world today.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Ivana Živković of Croatia as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, delivered on his behalf by Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, to the United Nations Global Congress of Victims of Terrorism, in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Volker Türk of Austria as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, following approval by the General Assembly. He will succeed Michelle Bachelet of Chile, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her commitment and dedicated service to the United Nations.
A large-scale influx of weapons to conflict-affected zones raises many concerns, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu told the Security Council today, as delegates convened for the third time in three days to discuss the situation in Ukraine, with many questioning the reasoning for the debate and what it could achieve for the millions of civilians suffering under near constant shelling.
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations this morning recommended that the Economic and Social Council grant special consultative status to 170 civil society organizations after examining a total of 564 requests and 317 quadrennial reports.
The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:
The World Food Programme’s first humanitarian shipment of grain from Ukraine, delivered under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, has arrived in Ethiopia and will be distributed in the coming weeks. The shipment will support one month of assistance to over 1.5 million people who have been displaced by drought and conflict.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the launch of the Human Development Report, “Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a World in Transformation”, today:
