MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Syria’s political transition has reached an important institutional milestone with the establishment of a People’s Assembly and Constitutional Supreme Court, senior UN officials told the Security Council today, warning that continued insecurity ...
As experts warned that road traffic crashes have become a silent pandemic and called on the international community to build transport systems that put people first, a text in which Governments around the world committed to improve road safety ...
Awash in gang violence, scarred by past foreign interventions and long paralysed politically, Haiti now stands at a crossroads between a return to order and tipping into total chaos, the Security Council heard today, as a range of senior United ...
In a high-level meeting to review implementation of the New Urban Agenda 10 years after its adoption, speakers in the General Assembly today both underscored the connection between urban policy and sustainable development and urged renewed ...
The high-level political forum on sustainable development concluded its 2026 session today, adopting a ministerial declaration, as amended, calling for transformative, equitable, innovative and coordinated action to accelerate implementation of ...
The International Criminal Court has made major strides in investigating crimes committed recently in Sudan’s Darfur region — including linking grave crimes against civilians directly with the perpetrators — the Security Council heard today, as ...
The Security Council met today to review implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement in Colombia as the country enters a political transition following closely contested and polarizing presidential elections, with speakers underscoring the ...
Renewed diplomacy across West Africa and the Sahel is beginning to yield tangible improvements, even as an increasingly sophisticated terrorist threat continues to wreak havoc across the region, particularly in the central Sahel and northern ...
As the Security Council adopted a resolution extending the Secretary-General’s monthly reporting mandate concerning Houthi attacks in the Red Sea for six additional months, the representatives of United States and China exchanged words about the ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
The General Assembly established the United Nations Board of Auditors in 1946 as an important mechanism to promote accountability and transparency in the United Nations. The Board audits the accounts of the United Nations Organization and its ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Security Council open debate on “Natural resource governance: the foundation of peace, security and prosperity”, in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Damien Mama of Benin as his Ad Interim Deputy Special Representative in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as prepared for delivery, by Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet, to the General Assembly at the observance of Nelson Mandela International Day, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on World Day against Trafficking in Persons, observed on 30 July:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Njoya Tikum of Cameroon as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Burkina Faso, with the host Government’s approval.
The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), successfully convened the 2026 Conference on the Question of Jerusalem on 18 ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, in Shanghai today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Dialogue on Early Warnings for All in Response to Climate Change at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference Meteorological Forum, in Shanghai today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, at the opening ceremony of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the Mid-term Review of ...