Press releases, press conferences, statements, official travel
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) approved 22?draft resolutions and one draft decision concerning decolonization today, as it completed its work for the main part of the...
The Fifth Committee?(Administrative and Budgetary) today sent the General Assembly 10?nominations to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions?(ACABQ) — which plays a crucial...
As the Sixth Committee (Legal) took up the Secretary?General’s report on the Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law?(document A/75/...
The First Committee?(Disarmament and International Security) today approved 14?drafts, among them several aimed at stemming the spread of illicit weapons on Earth and at preventing a celestial arms...
The General Assembly decided today that Headquarters will host a special session at the level of Heads of State and Government on 3 and 4?December in response to the COVID?19 pandemic.? It also...
In lieu of International Law Week - rendered impossible due to COVID?19 - the Sixth Committee (Legal) heard oral reports from the Chair?Designate and the Secretary of the International Law Commission...
Continuing its joint general debate today, the Fourth Committee?(Special Political and Decolonization) approved seven draft resolutions concerning Israeli practices in occupied Arab lands and the...
As the Sixth Committee?(Legal) took up the Secretary?General’s annual report on the Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of?1949 and relating to the protection of victims of...
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 to the Green Horizon Summit, delivered today:
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 at the opening of the “Race to Zero” Dialogues, held today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary?General António Guterres’ video message to the launch of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, held today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary?General António Guterres:
The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the sixth report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Sudan (document S/...
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Reporting that Syria missed an October deadline to respond to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the country’s reported use and stockpiling of such weapons, the senior...
The Security Council decided to extend for one year its authorization to States working as part of the multinational stabilization force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and heard a briefing by the high...
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Inga Rhonda King (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines):