Following is the text of Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Paris Conference on Libya, today:
The General Assembly, acting without a vote, today adopted a resolution that called upon all States not yet signed onto the Rome Statute ‑ the international treaty that created the International Criminal Court at a conference in Rome in 1998 ‑ to contemplate joining the 123 States parties that have already ratified the accord.
Mahamat Annadif, the Secretary‑General’s Special Representative for West Africa, and Foreign Minister of Guinea, Morissanda Kouyaté, launched a new initiative to facilitate an inclusive transition in Guinea by fostering reconciliation at national and community levels and increasing participation of women and all communities.
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today approved 14 draft resolutions concerning decolonization, as well as another on assistance in mine action and a decision on the body’s future programme of work, as members completed their work for the main part of the General Assembly’s seventy‑sixth session.
Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ remarks to the Global Climate Action High‑Level event, in Glasgow, United Kingdom, today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary‑General António Guterres:
The text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ to the Paris Peace Forum today, “Bridging the Global Divide”, is not available in English.
The 2021 United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East will be held virtually this year on Tuesday, 16 November and Wednesday, 17 November.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (Mexico):
With the Committee for Programme and Coordination unable to reach consensus and recommend the approval of programme plans in 2021, delegates in the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today exchanged differing views on the role of their Committee in addressing programme planning, following the General Assembly’s decision to allocate that agenda item to all its Main Committees and the Plenary.
