MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
The gruesome crisis in Sudan has “darkened even further” in the last six months, the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said today, citing a pattern of large-scale crimes against humanity that is being repeated “in town after ...
Amid reports of a potential United States military intervention to halt the killings of protesters in Iran, the Security Council today heard harrowing testimony from Iranian journalists who said they had been targeted for assassination and ...
“Do not be bystanders to injustice and impunity,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres implored delegates today, speaking candidly as he presented the Organization’s priorities for 2026 to the General Assembly.
The Security Council today adopted a resolution extending the Secretary-General’s monthly reporting on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea for six additional months, citing its many previous condemnations of the group’s attacks on merchant and ...
United Nations officials today urged an inclusive political process for Yemen, warned that millions of people are being left without life-saving aid and demanded the release of detained UN and relief personnel.
As the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears four years, Security Council speakers today called for de-escalation and condemned Moscow’s supersonic missile strike near the border of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ...
The international community must seize the “critical opportunity” to obtain long-overdue clarifications on the Syrian chemical weapons programme, a senior United Nations disarmament official told the Security Council today, while that country’s ...
Amid a dramatic escalation between the United States and Venezuela, members of the Security Council were sharply divided over the fate of ousted President Nicolás Maduro Moros and next steps for his oil-rich nation, even as many delegates warned ...
Emerging from complex negotiations, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today approved the United Nations programme budget for 2026, totalling $3.45 billion, as they concluded the main part of their eightieth session ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
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 are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the United Nations Association (UNA) of the United Kingdom on the eightieth anniversary of the General Assembly, in London today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ briefing to the General Assembly meeting on the priorities of the Organization for 2026, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Clean Energy, observed on 26 January:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the handover ceremony of the chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Education, observed on 24 January:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Vladanka Andreeva of North Macedonia as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Cambodia, with the host Government’s approval. She took up her post on 10 January.