MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
While spotlighting United Nations efforts to promote peace, pursue development and confront emerging challenges over the past 80 years, the new President of the General Assembly nevertheless urged that the organ’s upcoming session seek to ...
As the General Assembly concluded its eightieth session today, outgoing President Annalena Baerbock (Germany) reflected on a term marked by geopolitical divisions, institutional reform and a renewed defence of multilateralism.
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 ...
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 at the opening of the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York today:
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 closing of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the sixty-fifth anniversary of the death of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for South-South Cooperation, observed on 12 September:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, observed on 16 September:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Democracy, observed on 15 September:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
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.