Press Release

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message for World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary‑General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the General Assembly high‑level meeting on the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ remarks at the high‑level event between the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Cooperation to promote peace, security and stability:  preventing the linking of terrorism with organized crime and its financing through drug trafficking”, today:

Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council open debate on the role of reconciliation processes in the maintenance of peace and security, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ remarks to the first session of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary‑General Amina Mohamed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the launch of the Group of Friends of Women in Afghanistan, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message for Africa Industrialization Day, observed on 20 November:

Following is Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message to the international conference organized by the Boutros‑Ghali Foundation for Peace and Knowledge, in Cairo today:

The Department of Global Communications Civil Society Association Committee today associated 14 civil society organizations with the United Nations Department of Global Communications.  This brings the number of civil society organizations working with the Department in the area of communications and outreach to 1,533.

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