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08 March 2023

New York - Secretary-General's message on International Women's Day [scroll down for French version]
New York - Secretary-General's remarks to the International Women’s Day event: DigitALL: Innovation & Technology for Gender Equality
Kyiv - Secretary-General's press encounter in Kyiv, Ukraine
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's video message for the Conference on “Women in Islam: Understanding the Rights and Identity of Women in the Islamic World” on the Sidelines of CSW67
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's video message on the occasion of the United Nations’ Observance of International Women’s Day Theme: DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality

07 March 2023

Warsaw - Note to Correspondents - The Secretary-General has just arrived in Poland on his way to Ukraine.
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at Ministerial round table at the Commission on the Status of Women: “Fostering inclusive innovation and technological change to empower women and girls and create safer digital spaces”

06 March 2023

New York - Secretary-General's remarks to the Commission on the Status of Women [bilingual, as delivered, follows; scroll further down for all-English and all-French]
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the Democratic Republic of the Congo [scroll down for French version]  
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on Pakistan

05 March 2023

New York - Secretary-General's message on the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness [scroll down for French version]
Doha - Secretary-General's video message to the Private Sector Forum at the Fifth Conference on Least Developed Countries
Manama - Secretary-General's video message to the General Meeting of the Council of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
Doha - Secretary-General's remarks to plenary of fifth Conference of Least Developed Countries [bilingual as delivered; scroll down for all English]

04 March 2023

Doha - Secretary-General's remarks to Leaders' Summit of Least Developed Countries [as delivered in English and French]
Doha - Secretary-General's remarks at opening of UN House in Doha, Qatar [as delivered]
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on Int'l Legally Binding Instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

03 March 2023

New York - Secretary-General's Message for World Wildlife Day [scroll down for French version]

02 March 2023

Jeddah Rehabilitation Centre - Secretary-General's remarks to press outside Jeddah Rehabilitation Centre in Iraq [scroll down for Arabic version]
Erbil - Secretary-General's press encounter in Erbil, Iraq
New York - Ms. Cindy H. McCain of the United States – Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP)

01 March 2023

Rabat, Morocco - Secretary-General's video message to the Seventeenth Plenary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean
New York - Secretary-General’s Statement at the Intergovernmental Conf. on an Int'l Legally Binding Instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
Baghdad - Secretary-General's remarks to the press upon arrival in Baghdad, Iraq
Baghdad - Secretary-General's joint press encounter with Iraq Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani [scroll down for the Arabic version]
Baghdad - Secretary-General's press conference in Baghdad, Iraq
Baghdad - Secretary-General's press encounter at the National Museum of Iraq
Lisbon - Deputy Secretary-General's closing keynote video message for the Economist's 10th Annual World Ocean Summit and Expo
New York - Ms. María Isabel Salvador of Ecuador - Special Representative for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti

28 February 2023

New York - Note to correspondents: Secretary-General's visit to Iraq and Qatar
Niamey - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at the Ninth African Regional Forum for Sustainable Development 2023 [as prepared for delivery]

27 February 2023

Geneva - Secretary-General's remarks to the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council [Bilingual, as delivered; scroll further down for all-French and all-English]
Geneva - Secretary-General's remarks at High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen [as delivered, scroll down for Arabic version]

24 February 2023

New York - Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council - on Ukraine [bilingual as delivered; scroll down for All-English and All-French]
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General - on the Orders of the International Court of Justice in the proceedings between Armenia and Azerbaijan

23 February 2023

Uppsala - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture [as prepared for delivery]
New York - Ms. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira of Rwanda - Head of the United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS)

22 February 2023

New York - Secretary-General's remarks to the General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Ukraine [bilingual as delivered; scroll down for all-English and all-French]
New York - Secretary-General's remarks at Opening of the 2023 Session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People [as delivered]

21 February 2023

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the attack against MINUSMA peacekeepers in Bandiagara region [scroll down for French]

20 February 2023

New York - Ms. Afshan Khan of Canada - Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement

19 February 2023

New York - Statement  attributable to  the  Spokesperson for  the  Secretary-General - on the situation in Suriname
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

18 February 2023

Addis Ababa - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.E. Mr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.E. Mr. Faustin Archange Touadéra, President of the Central African Republic [scroll down for French]
Addis Ababa - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.E. ⁠General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, President of the transition and Head of State, Republic of Chad [scroll down for French]
Addis Ababa - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.E. Mr. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Addis Ababa - Secretary-General's remarks to the Opening Ceremony at the 36th ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly [as delivered]
Addis Ababa - Secretary-General's Press Conference at the African Union Summit

17 February 2023

Addis Ababa - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.E. Mr. Evariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi [scroll down for French]

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