MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Concluding the regular part of its forty-eighth session today, the Committee on Information adopted its report containing two resolutions concerning United Nations information activities that the General Assembly will vote on later this year.
The current cash balance for the United Nations regular budget is “only sufficient to meet legal obligations through the middle of August” — not through December — the Organization’s top management official told the Fifth Committee ...
Safeguard open access for emerging technologies, leading scientists from around the world underscored today at a United Nations forum on how their work can support development.
The conflict in Sudan and instability in South Sudan are delaying agreement on Abyei’s final status and degrading conditions in the demilitarized area, United Nations officials warned the Security Council today, as delegates called for the ...
The crucial question about artificial intelligence is not how powerful it is, but who it is being designed for, the United Nations heard today from a scientist whose life and work experience spans multiple continents.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened its May session today with Member States focused on the Secretary-General’s proposed $5.23 billion budget for peacekeeping missions — a 7.5 per cent reduction from the previous period — ...
The largest global gathering of Indigenous Peoples concluded its annual session at the United Nations today, adopting a number of recommendations, one of which drew attention to how Indigenous Peoples’ health is “cultural, collective and rooted ...
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 30 April 2027.
With the risk of nuclear weapons use “at its highest since the darkest moments of the cold war”, United Nations delegates and representatives of international agencies and organizations today called for urgent efforts to reverse previous ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
The new Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, Frank Grütter, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the reception to celebrate World Portuguese Language Day and the Cultural Diversity within the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the plenary meeting of the General Assembly to launch the Expert Group Report on “Beyond GDP”, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the International Migration Review Forum, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the twentieth plenary session and the first Summit of Speakers and Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, in Budva, Montenegro, today:
The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:
On 1 May, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya updated its Implementation Assistance Notice (IAN) No. 6 on application of relevant assets freeze measures in relation to the payment of ...
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the United Nations Inter-Agency Games, in Heraklion, Greece, today:
The new Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations, Mxolisi Sizo Nkosi, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Portuguese Language Day, observed on 5 May:





