Treaties, Conventions, Ratifications

In Lebanon, over 1.1 million people are now registered as displaced. In the past month, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has supplied over 280,000 litres of fuel to some 45 pumping stations and wastewater stations nationwide, and the UN and its aid partners have distributed over 3 million meals and over 65,000 food parcels.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the entry into force of the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the International Conference on the Global Partnership against Online Scams, held in Bangkok today:

NEW YORK, 16 December (Office of Legal Affairs) — The United Nations General Assembly adopted yesterday the United Nations Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents, a landmark treaty that extends the long-established benefits of maritime bills of lading to all modes of transport. For the first time in history, goods carried by road, rail, air or sea could be represented by a single negotiable document — on paper or in electronic form.

The General Assembly today adopted four resolutions on governance of the world’s oceans, with delegations starkly divided on whether to include references to sustainable development conferences in its annual omnibus resolution.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the twenty-second Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention), in Geneva today:

In Ukraine, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that the city and region of Kyiv were hit by large-scale drone and missile strikes, killing and injuring several civilians. Up to 500,000 families in Kyiv lost electricity, with water and heating services disrupted. In Dnipro, an attack also killed and injured civilians.

A new report from the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), titled “At Risk and Underfunded”, warns that sweeping aid cuts are jeopardizing the organizations essential to ending violence against women and girls.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Cybercrime Convention signing ceremony, held in Hanoi today: