Statements and Messages

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Pacific Islands Forum High-Level Round Table on Urgent Climate Change Action, today:

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message to the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context – also called the Espoo Convention - on its thirtieth anniversary, today:

The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the fifth report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Philippines (S/2020/777), agreed to convey the following messages through a public statement by the Chair of the Working Group:

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message on International Mountain Day, observed on 11 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the open session of the Bali Democracy Forum, in Indonesia today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ video message to the closing session of the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 “Journalism without Fear or Favour”, in The Hague today:

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message on the Human Rights Day 2020 theme “Recover Better:  Stand Up for Human Rights”, observed on 10 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered, on the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide, observed today:

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message at the Thimphu Ambition Summit, “Momentum for a 1.5°C World”, in Bhutan today: