Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the sixth Review Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, to be convened on 13 December:
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says at least 54 migrants died in a truck crash in Chiapas, Mexico, on 9 December, marking the country’s deadliest single incident for migrants. Some 651 people have died in 2021 attempting to cross Mexico’s northern border, the highest number since 2014.
The following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on democracy:
Amid a fragile backdrop of peace and security in Darfur, regional dynamics are mainly favourable in maintaining stability, the outgoing head of Sudan’s sanctions committee told the Security Council today.
Acting on the recommendations of its Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) and Sixth Committee (Legal), the General Assembly today adopted a total of 51 resolutions and 13 decisions on items ranging from decolonization to the power, study and dissemination of international law.
The resumed thirty-first Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, presided by Holger Martinsen (Argentina), was held at United Nations Headquarters on 8 December.
Warning that people and countries most vulnerable to climate change also are most vulnerable to terrorist recruitment and violence, nearly 60 speakers in an open debate today told the Security Council that the negative synergy between the two crises threatens to undermine States and international security itself, as the 15-nation organ considered a draft resolution proposed by Niger and Ireland on the matter.
The International Organization for Migration and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the today launched a $1.79 billion plan to help Venezuelan refugees and migrants and their host communities in 17 Latin American and Caribbean nations. The number of Venezuelan refugees has surpassed 6 million.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council open debate on “Maintenance of international peace and security: Security in the context of terrorism and climate change”, in New York today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Bali Democracy Forum, in Bali, Indonesia today:
