MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
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.
The current cash balance for the United Nations regular budget is “only sufficient to meet legal obligations through the middle of August” — not through December — the Organization’s top management official told the Fifth Committee ...
Safeguard open access for emerging technologies, leading scientists from around the world underscored today at a United Nations forum on how their work can support development.
The conflict in Sudan and instability in South Sudan are delaying agreement on Abyei’s final status and degrading conditions in the demilitarized area, United Nations officials warned the Security Council today, as delegates called for the ...
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:
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 ...
On 27 March 2026, the Panel of Experts on South Sudan briefed the members of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015), in connection with the Panel’s final report submitted in pursuance of paragraph 18 of ...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert of the Netherlands as his new Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security, UN Department of Safety and Security.
