MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
A nuclear disaster with potentially harrowing human and environmental impacts was narrowly averted this week in the United Arab Emirates, as Iranian drones struck a functioning nuclear power plant, the senior UN nuclear safety official told an ...
With its cash reserves rapidly depleting, and long-term financial stability eroding, the United Nations is not only risking its peace and development agenda, it is struggling to survive as an organization, delegates in the Fifth Committee ...
Following one of the largest aerial attacks against Ukraine since the full-scale invasion began, United Nations officials warned the Security Council today that civilian casualties are rising sharply, humanitarian operations are coming under ...
The United Nations Forum on Forests concluded its twenty-first session today, adopting its omnibus resolution emphasizing the urgent need to accelerate implementation of the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests and its six Global Forest ...
At a special event today marking the seventy-eighth anniversary of the Nakba, the United Nations Palestinian Rights Committee heard testimonies from bereaved families and friends of victims — those killed during the events of 78 years ago, as ...
While Syria has seen progress towards accountability and sustained international engagement, the Security Council heard today that unresolved tensions, economic hardship and repeated violations of Syria’s sovereignty persist as the country ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina is moving along “a narrowing path” that could lead either towards institutional sustainability and economic revitalization, or stagnation and deconstruction of State institutions, the Security Council heard today from the ...
With the window to 2030 “narrowing”, the United Nations Forum on Forests opened its twenty-first session by launching the Global Forest Goals Report 2026, calling for faster action, stronger partnerships and scaled-up resources to keep agreed ...
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.
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 the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the Second Ministerial Conference on Peacekeeping in the Francophone Area, in Rabat today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
On the evening of Tuesday, 12 May, UN Secretary-General António Guterres landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
On the evening of Sunday, 10 May, UN Secretary-General António Guterres landed in Nairobi, Kenya.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum, held under the theme “Housing the world: Safe and resilient cities and communities”, in Baku today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the event titled, “Celebrating 70: Japan-United Nations Cooperation, Expo 2025 and the Future of Multilateralism”, in Tokyo today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the seventy-ninth World Health Assembly, in Geneva today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks in several locations across Mali on 25 April 2026 and in the days that followed, including 6 May 2026, which resulted in the loss of ...