MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Underlining the need to raise awareness of the value of diversity of civilizations and promote dialogue, mutual respect, tolerance and global solidarity, the General Assembly today adopted by consensus a resolution declaring 10 June the ...
Ahead of an international summit for peace in Ukraine to be held in Switzerland on 15-16 June, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today that May saw the highest number of civilian casualties in a single month since June ...
In a series of elections today, delegates in the General Assembly chose its President for the seventy-ninth session, the Bureaus of the six Main Committees, as well the five non-permanent members of the Security Council for the next two-year ...
The Economic and Social Council concluded its 2024 management segment this morning with a discussion to integrate key messages from its subsidiary bodies and the UN system on the Council’s main theme, develop action-oriented recommendations for ...
The Economic and Social Council today opened its 2024 management segment today taking up items including: economic and environmental questions; coordination, programme and other questions; the role of the United Nations system in the ...
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today approved a draft resolution forwarding the latest report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations for adoption by the General Assembly.
The United Nations team investigating atrocity crimes committed in Iraq by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) has laid the groundwork for future judicial proceedings, speakers told the Security Council today as they discussed ...
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2024 resumed session today, taking up responses to questions on deferred applications. The Committee also reviewed the provisional agenda for its 2025 session, as well as the ...
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2024 resumed session today, taking up responses to questions on new applications for consultative status and new requests for reclassification.
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 to the annual conference of the Arms Control Association, in Washington, D.C., today:
On 4 June 2024, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan met to hear a briefing by the Panel of Experts on the Sudan on the Panel’s work programme for 2024-2025.
The thirty-fourth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at United Nations Headquarters from 10 to 14 June.
The new Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations, Cherdchai Chaivaivid, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the United Nations, Pema Lektup Dorji, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The new Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the United Nations, Taonga Mushayavanhu, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
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 election of the President of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: