United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Rabab Fatima of Bangladesh as High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).
After China and the Russian Federation vetoed a draft resolution in the Security Council on 26 May aimed at tightening the sanctions regime against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the General Assembly today held a debate on the issue, with speakers expressing diverging views on that country’s actions related to nuclear non-proliferation and security in the Korean Peninsula.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the launch of the second brief by the Global Crisis Response Group, in New York today:
Significant investigative progress in the collection of evidence has been made into the financing, use of chemical weapons and crimes committed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Da’esh, the head of the United Nations team investigating that group’s crimes told the Security Council today, as speakers welcomed the Team’s use of technology to facilitate prosecution and stressed the need to address the group’s continuing proliferation across other regions.
Opening its 2022 management segment today, the Economic and Social Council adopted 6 resolutions and 11 decisions pertaining to proposals by its subsidiary bodies.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the eighth meeting of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, in New York today:
Following is the transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ press conference with Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), on the launch of the second brief by the Global Crisis Response Group, in New York today:
Marking both democratic strides and worsening security conditions, the situation in the Central African region remains something of a mixed picture, senior officials told the Security Council today, voicing particular concern over terrorist attacks, population displacement and the resurgence of old armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The new Permanent Observer of the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf to the United Nations, Sulaiman Mohammed S. AlAnbar, presented his letter of appointment today to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Paula Narváez Ojeda, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
