MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Despite progress in forming Kosovo’s institutions, tensions between communities and unresolved issues with Serbia continue to challenge stability, the Security Council heard today, as members expressed differing views on the future of the United ...
Tackling a wide variety of topics today — from international trade law to the administration of justice at the United Nations — the Sixth Committee (Legal) concluded with a consideration of measures to ensure the safety of diplomatic premises ...
Amid concerns over alleged chemical-agent use in ongoing conflicts, First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) delegates welcomed progress in efforts to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons legacy and reaffirmed the absolute ...
Enforced disappearances are reaching alarming levels worldwide, while human rights defenders face increasing persecution and surveillance, United Nations experts warned the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, citing ...
Despite advances on the political and peace front in the Central African Republic, persisting security threats imperil progress in several areas, particularly those bordering Chad and Sudan, the UN’s senior official in Bangui told the Security ...
Troubled by the ongoing liquidity crisis impeding the United Nations ability to deliver on its mandates, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today emphasized that Member States’ timely payment of assessed ...
As the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, speakers in the Sixth Committee (Legal) today highlighted how its work contributes to establishing legal certainty in the realm of ...
The Security Council today called for stronger measures to protect children affected by armed conflict from violations and abuses facilitated by digital technologies, while promoting their safe use for education and child protection.
As the world enters the final years implementing the 2030 Agenda, speakers stressed the urgent need to translate commitments to close the sustainable development financing gap and reduce soaring debt burdens into results, at the annual joint ...
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for United Nations Day, observed on 24 October:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the fifty-fourth session of the Committee on World Food Security, in Rome today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Jakarta today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to peacekeeping troops at the Indonesia Armed Forces Peacekeeping Centre in Sentul, Indonesia, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Leaders’ Summit on Biodiversity, at the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Yerevan today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message on the launch of the World Social Report 2026, titled New Economics of Social Inclusion: Making Transformations Work for All, in New York today:
On 15 October 2026, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al‑Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities enacted the amendments specified ...
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the University of Coimbra event on Guardrails for Artificial General Intelligence, held in Coimbra, Portugal, today:
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its sixty-eighth session from 19 October to 20 November.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the meeting of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) of the General Assembly on the proposed programme budget for 2027, in New York today:
