Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message for International Volunteer Day, observed on 5 December:

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message for Human Rights Day with the theme:  “Youth standing up for human rights”, observed on 10 December:

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message for the launch of the International Year of Plant Health, in Rome today:

United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres departed New York on Sunday evening, 24 November, and arrived in Berlin, Germany, on Monday afternoon, 25 November.

Years of urgent, unfinished business in Iraq — and a resulting “crisis of confidence” among its people — have culminated in civil unrest and the deaths of more than 400 people since October, said the senior United Nations official in the country today, as she briefed the Security Council on the latest developments.

The General Assembly today adopted five resolutions on the question of Palestine and the Middle East, including one calling on Member States not to recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including with regards to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties through negotiations.

NEW YORK, 2 December (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) — The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its fifty‑first session at United Nations Headquarters from 14 October to 29 November 2019.  There were no plenary parts during the session and its seven weeks were devoted entirely to the technical examination of submissions at the geographic information systems laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary‑General António Guterres:

Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ remarks to a round table with Heads of State and Government at the twenty‑fifth Conference of the Parties (COP25) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Madrid today:

Concluding its programme of work, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today approved 14 draft resolutions, including one expressing concern that proceeds from offences under the United Nations Convention against Corruption have yet to be disposed of in favour of the requesting States parties.