Delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today threw their support behind the Secretariat’s request for nearly $21 million to let special political missions in Haiti and Colombia carry out expanded mandates in 2024. ...
MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Iraq and Security Council members must consider the final status, more than the end date, of a mandate governing the UN Team investigating atrocity crimes by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, urged a Special Adviser during his ...
With the sustainability of the non-proliferation regime under strain, the geopolitical context unpredictable, and perils to peace capricious and complex, the General Assembly today adopted 55 resolutions and 1 decision on the recommendation of ...
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 ...
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 ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
GENEVA, 4 December (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The twenty-second Republic of Korea-United Nations Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues is taking place at the United Nations Office at Geneva, on 4-5 December. This ...
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Ministers and delegates from more than 85 countries and international organizations will meet in Accra, Ghana for the 2023 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting on 5 and 6 December to express their collective commitment to UN ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks for the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) Round Table with Non-State Actors on the Report of ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the “Early Warnings for All” Presidency event, in Dubai today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Global Climate Action Summit, in Dubai today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Group of 77 plus China twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties (COP) Leaders’ Summit, in Dubai today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the high-level meeting on the landlocked developing countries, in Dubai today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the “Call of the Mountains: Who saves us from the climate crisis?” event, in Dubai today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: