Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, observed on 26 June:

The United Nations announced today that Data for Democracy (D4D) has won the Unite Ideas Internal Displacement Event Tagging and Extraction Clustering Tool (#IDETECT) data challenge.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the United Nations Population Award Ceremony, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening of a national conference on “Strengthening of Partnerships for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in the Face of Current Challenges and Threats”, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 12 June 2017:

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ statement regarding the situation in Syria:

On 20 June 2017, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) 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 2 of Security Council resolution 2253 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Refugee Day, observed on 20 June:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, observed today, 19 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ statement on the wildfires in Portugal: