The Security Council today decided to terminate the mandate of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) under resolution 2579 (2021) and begin winding down its operations over a three-month period slated to end on ...
MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
To degrade the threat posed by Al-Shabaab to Somalia and the region, the Security Council decided today to renew the sanctions regime and arms embargo against that terrorist group.
Recognizing the benchmarks reached on implementing the security transition, the Somalia Transition Plan and the national security architecture, the Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution lifting the arms embargo on the Federal ...
The General Assembly today designated 7 September as World Duchenne Awareness Day, to be observed as a United Nations day every year, beginning in 2024, as it held its annual debate on global health, with speakers expressing deep alarm over the ...
Fifty-three days since the Israel-Gaza war began, speakers called today for the current humanitarian pause to become a sustained ceasefire — and for renewed efforts to be made for a two-State solution in the Middle East — during a ministerial ...
Optimistic that interlinked reform processes juxtaposed with improved service delivery within the United Nations will reinvigorate the Sustainable Development Goals at all levels and redirect savings towards development and carrying out the UN’s ...
Peace and security can never be achieved by “wiping out Gaza” or by crushing the skulls of infants and shedding the blood of children, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine told a special meeting of the Palestinian Rights Committee ...
Opening a day-long meeting on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly President warned that the longer the fear, distrust, appetite for revenge, hatred and anxiety fester and further deepen, the more lethal the psychological chasm grows ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the World Climate Action Summit, the twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), in Dubai, United Arab Emirates ...
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President José Javier de la Gasca Lopezdominguez (Ecuador):
The new Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations, José Javier De la Gasca Lopez Domínguez, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Santiago, Chile, from New York, on the morning of Tuesday, 21 November. That afternoon, he visited the offices of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ...
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the commemorative event to observe the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, today:
“Knowledge, History and Power” will be the focus of a conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and Laura Trevelyan, former BBC correspondent, to be held during the lunchtime at ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the World Climate Action Summit, Twenty-eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), in Dubai, United Arab ...
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the second plenary on the Funding Model for the Resident Coordinator System, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, observed 2 December:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) “State of the Global Climate 2023” report launch, in Dubai today: