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03 December 2019

New York - High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the appointment of the members of the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement

02 December 2019

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General - on Burkina Faso [scroll down for French Version]

Madrid - Secretary-General's remarks at Climate Vulnerable Forum at COP25 [as delivered]

New York - Secretary-General's remarks at opening ceremony of UN Climate Change Conference COP25 [as delivered]

Madrid - Secretary-General's remarks to Roundtable with Heads of State & Government at COP25

Rome - Secretary-General's message on the launch of the International Year of Plant Health

Dakar - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks on "Sustainable Development, Sustainable Debt", at the inaugural session of the Conference co-organized by the Republic of Senegal and the International Monetary Fund [as prepared for delivery]

Madrid - Secretary-General’s remarks at Joint Press Conference with President Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain [in Spanish and English]

New York - Mr. Bruno Lemarquis of France - Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti

01 December 2019

New York - Secretary-General's message on World AIDS Day [scroll down for French version]

Madrid - UN Secretary-General's remarks at pre-COP25 press conference [as delivered]

Madrid - Mr. Mark Joseph Carney of Canada - Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance

29 November 2019

New York - Secretary-General's message on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People [scroll down for French version]

Moscow - Secretary-General's message to Moscow State Institute for International Relations on its 75th Anniversary

28 November 2019

New York - Statement by the Special Envoy on the release of Yemeni detainees

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Iraq

27 November 2019

New York - Remarks on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

New York - Note to Correspondents: Peacebuilding Commission Press Statement on the Launch of the 2020 Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture

26 November 2019

Berlin - Secretary-General's remarks to the Internet Governance Forum [as delivered]

Berlin - Secretary-General's Remarks to the Media during Joint Stakeout with Chancellor Angela Merkel

25 November 2019

New York - Secretary-General's video message on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women [scroll down for French version]

Oslo - Secretary-General's message to Fourth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines

Lisbon - Secretary-General's message to the Lisbon Forum

Moscow - Secretary-General's video message to Sustainable Development Forum "Common Future"

Geneva - Secretary-General's video message to UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

Berlin - UN Secretary-General’s Statement on Cyprus

Abuja - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at launch of the United Nations Development Programme Report: “Scaling Fences, Voices of Irregular African Migrants to Europe” [as prepared for delivery]

Abuja - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at joint press conference on the International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women [as prepared for delivery]

New York - Note to Correspondents: Statement by the Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Abhijit Guha on airstrikes in Hudaydah

New York - Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen of the Republic of South Africa - Chair of the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General - on Bolivia (scroll down for Spanish)

24 November 2019

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on attack in Afghanistan

23 November 2019

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Colombia [scroll down for Spanish]

22 November 2019

Guangzhou - Secretary-General's video message to International Finance Forum 2019

New York - Secretary-General's remarks at the Meeting of the Peacebuilding Commission on the 2020 Review [as delivered]

New York - Note to Correspondents: Press remarks by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Geir O. Pedersen

21 November 2019

New York - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.M. King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Madrid - Secretary-General's video message to United Nations Innovation Toolkit Launch Event

New York - Secretary-General's remarks to the First Meeting of the Group of Friends on Digital Technologies [as prepared for delivery]

Geneva - Note to Correspondents: Statement Attributable to Ms. Najat Rochdi, Senior Humanitarian Adviser to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, on the Strike on an Internally Displaced Persons Camp

New York - Ms. Ghada Fathi Waly of Egypt - Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the UN Office at Vienna (UNOV)

20 November 2019

New York - Secretary-General's video message on the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child [scroll down for French version]

New York - Secretary-General's message on Africa Industrialization Day [scroll down for French version]

Budapest - Secretary-General's message to World Science Forum, 20-23 November

New York - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child [as prepared for delivery]

New York - Deputy Secretary-General’s remarks at opening of the Resident Coordinator meeting with Member States [as prepared for delivery]

New York - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at UN Foundation “We the Peoples” dinner [as prepared for delivery]

19 November 2019

New York - Secretary-General's remarks at launch of the Revised United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Standards

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