Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
Political leadership, along with sustainable financing from the international community, are needed to create safer roads, save lives and help achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and...
LISBON, 1 July — The 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference concluded today with world leaders adopting an action-oriented Political Declaration to save the ocean from existing and future threats,...
LISBON, 1 July — The sustainable use of oceans cuts across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, experts and delegates underscored at the eighth Lisbon dialogue, as they identified the...
LISBON, 30 June — Calls for the full implementation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dominated the seventh Lisbon dialogue today, with delegates describing the landmark...
LISBON, 30 June — While oceans cover 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface, providing food and livelihoods for 3 billion people, current understanding of its vast biochemical processes has not kept pace...
Negotiations to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between the United States and Iran are at a critical juncture, briefers told the Security Council today, stressing that the momentum of...
LISBON, 30 June — Scientific collaboration and knowledge-sharing is essential to protecting humanity’s shared ocean heritage, speakers stressed on the fourth day of the 2022 Ocean Conference, also...
Adopting a sweeping political declaration on global road safety, the General Assembly today committed to a range of actions aimed at reducing road traffic deaths — 90 per cent of which occur in the...
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its fifty-fifth session from 5 July to 19 August.
On 30 June 2022, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) enacted the amendments, specified with strikethrough and/or underline, in the entry below on its...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on improving road safety, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on the virtual launch of the annual reports of the Central Emergency Response Fund and the Country-based Pooled Fund for 2021, today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s closing remarks at the Transforming Education Pre-Summit, in Paris today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Transforming Education Pre-Summit, in Paris today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ virtual remarks to the Global People’s Summit, held today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the side event on innovative financing for lower middle-income countries, at the Transforming...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Najat Rochdi of Morocco as his Deputy Special Envoy for Syria.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the opening of the Youth Forum’s Transforming Education Pre-Summit, in Paris today:
