Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, observed on 12 September:
Top peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs officials warned the Security Council during a 9 September videoconference meeting that wide-ranging implications of the COVID-19 pandemic could erode peace and push more conflict‑affected nations onto its agenda.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Global Education Forum, in New York today:
The International Organisation of la Francophonie, marking its fiftieth anniversary, is uniquely placed to reinforce United Nations conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, particularly in French-speaking countries, as well as to foster a culture of multilingualism within the Organization, briefers told the Security Council during an September videoconference meeting.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the opening segment of the United Nations High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, in New York today:
On 10 September 2020, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al‑Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entries below on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2368 (2017), and adopted under Chapter VII of the C
The Department of Global Communications will host an online panel discussion, “From Pig Farm to Memorial Site Lety: The Struggle for Recognition of the Genocide against the Roma and Sinti”, on 16 September, 10 a.m. EDT.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the first Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT)‑Accelerator Facilitation Council meeting, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
A survey by the United Nations Children’s Fund found that 535,500 children in Burkina Faso under five years old are acutely malnourished, including 156,000 who suffer from severe acute malnutrition and are at imminent risk of death. Community health workers have been mobilized to screen and treat children in the most remote areas.
