MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Amid its review of the entity tasked with concluding the functions of two landmark international criminal courts, speakers in the Security Council today alternately highlighted the need to safeguard the legacy at stake and finalize the work of a ...
Peace is never elegant, it is “a messy series of concessions that leave everyone truly exhausted, but alive” and that is infinitely preferable to the alternative, the Security Council heard today from the speaker of a country that has survived a ...
While Central African countries have achieved several important governance milestones, those strides have unfolded against a “troubling backdrop” marked by relentless terrorist attacks, mass population displacement and increasing restrictions on ...
The Security Council’s permanent members remained split today over whether UN sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear programme are still in force, as Liberia — one of the Council’s 10 elected members — called for the establishment of a Secretariat ...
The war in Ukraine is deadlier today than at any point since the start of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion in 2022, top UN officials warned the Security Council today, as Council members repeatedly stressed “enough is enough” and ...
Despite surface stability in Afghanistan, the lives of its people are increasingly restricted, a senior UN official in that country said, as she urged the international community to stay engaged over the long term, even if progress is slow ...
In a year marked by global instability and proliferating conflicts, the Security Council made modest progress in meeting the world’s growing demand for action that is more coherent and less hamstrung by political divisions, the General Assembly ...
The General Assembly today adopted several texts, including one that urged Member States to strengthen health systems towards the provision of equitable universal health coverage.
The discovery of previously undeclared chemical weapons in Syria — including the types infamously used in the town of Ghouta in 2013 — marks a “momentous” step forward for the global community, the Security Council heard today, as the UN’s ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, observed on 17 June:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the Day of the Seafarer, observed on 25 June:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on the occasion of United Nations Public Service Day, observed on 23 June:
The thirty-sixth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be convened at United Nations Headquarters from 15 to 19 June (for the provisional agenda of the Meeting see document SPLOS/36/L.1).
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, observed on 19 June:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Refugee Day, observed on 20 June:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the launch of the Muscat Plan of Action for Traditional and Indigenous Leaders and Peoples in Countering and Addressing Hate Speech and Preventing Genocide and Atrocity Crimes and ...
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 International Day for Countering Hate Speech, observed on 18 June:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: