MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
The General Assembly today took an important step towards correcting distortions in commonly used world maps, particularly the Mercator projection, which are seen misrepresenting the relative size of continents and contribute to a diminished ...
Despite concerns from several delegations that the process was rushed, the General Assembly decided this morning to merge the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
The United Nations disarmament Chief told the Security Council today that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has verified the destruction of 42 aerial bombs declared by Syria as part of its chemical weapons programme ...
The General Assembly took stock of the activities of the United Nations Youth Office today, including the implementation of its 2025–2028 strategic plan, with delegates using the opportunity to discuss youth participation in multilateral ...
Desperate conditions prevail throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People heard today, as humanitarian actors detailed inadequate funding to address dire need as ...
There is “no safe space left” in Ukraine as every part of the country “has been a target”, the General Assembly heard today, as Member States expressed alarm over reports that Kyiv had come under attack for the sixth consecutive day.
Meeting to commemorate the International Day against Nuclear Tests 35 years after the closure of the Semipalatinsk test site, speakers in the General Assembly today used the occasion to reflect on why testing moratoria must be upheld, as they ...
The massacre of at least 47 people in Kenscoff, including children and civilians killed while seeking refuge in a church, lays bare the worsening brutality of Haiti’s gang crisis, the Security Council heard today, as speakers urged the rapid ...
Meeting 13 years after a deadly chemical-weapons attack was perpetrated by the former regime in the outskirts of Damascus, the Security Council today heard that, despite progress in overcoming Syria’s old challenges, the international community ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
The new Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations, Osama M. Abdelkhalek, presented his letter of appointment to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations, Cheikhna Nenni Moulaye Zeine, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
On 4 September 2026, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al‑Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities enacted the amendments ...
The new Permanent Representative of Malawi to the United Nations, General Griffin Spoon Phiri (rtd.), presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations, Charlotte Kugelberg, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the General Assembly on the UN80 Initiative, in New York 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 on the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and Girls, observed today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message on the launch of the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) overshoot report:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, in Bishkek today:





