United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond of Chile as his Special Adviser on the Preparations for the Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the United Nations at the Under-Secretary-General level.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members, observed today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the wreath laying for the victims on the Ethiopian air crash, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ remarks at the opening of the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York today (prefaced by remarks about the 10 March Ethiopian Airlines plane crash):
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations held its forty-fifth session from 20-22 February at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
At least 34 United Nations and associated personnel — 26 peacekeepers and 8 civilians — were killed in malicious attacks in the line of duty in 2018, according to the Standing Committee for the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service of the United Nations Staff Union.
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations held its forty-fourth session from 11 to 14 December at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The session was presided over by the Chair, Maria Gracia M. Pulido Tan.
The fifty-ninth meeting of the Panel of External Auditors, chaired by Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General of the United Kingdom, was held from 3 to 4 December at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Global insecurity will continue to rise as a result of political and social polarization, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says in his report to the General Assembly released on 30 October, titled “Safety and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of United Nations Personnel”.