Organization matters

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

This week, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), in its continuing support to the Government on demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration of ex-combatants, repatriated four ex-combatants from Rwanda along with a dependent woman.

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for United Nations Day, observed on 24 October:

Delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today tackled how — or even whether — to recalibrate the complex financial methodology used to determine how much money each Member State will contribute to the Organization’s regular and peacekeeping budgets.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) issued a statement today — jointly with the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) — noting the presidency’s decision to extend the country’s transitional period by 24 months until February 2027.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the sixty-third anniversary of the death of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Juraj Strasser of Slovakia, as Director of the UN Ethics Office. He will succeed Elia Armstrong of Canada, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her dedicated service to the Organization.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that the African region is experiencing an unprecedented increase in mpox cases since the start of 2024, with more countries previously unaffected by the disease reporting cases in an expanding spread of the virus.

The Board held its seventy-eighth regular session in New York on 23 and 24 July.

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its sixty-seventh session from 17 to 19 July via hybrid format at United Nations Headquarters in New York.