The new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, Hwang Joon-kook, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, Abdulaziz Alwasil, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Chad to the United Nations, Mouctar Abakar, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations, Tareq M A M Albanai, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the dedication of the Abused Ammunition sculpture, in New York today:
Citing an alarming rise in military spending, a widening gulf of distrust and nuclear rhetoric by the Russian Federation as it advances its war in Ukraine, Governments attending the Tenth Review Conference of the “cornerstone” agreement to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons today described heightened risks of miscalculations and proposed ways to tackle the “commitment deficit” endemic to past negotiation cycles.
The Secretary-General expressed his concern about legal actions being carried out against justice officials in Guatemala. He is also following recent developments regarding the arrest of José Rubén Zamora, a journalist and founder of a newspaper that has played an important role in exposing corruption.
Calling for the world to avoid the “suicidal mistake” of nuclear conflict, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stressed that while humanity has been extraordinarily lucky so far, “luck is not a strategy”, and the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is as crucial as ever, as the month-long Tenth Review Conference of that accord began at Headquarters today.
Even though August is often a month for vacation, the work of the Security Council neither can nor should be relaxed as a cold war mentality and power politics have created more uncertainty and instability in the world, its President for the month said at a Headquarters press conference today.
