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12 November 2022

Phnom Penh - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.E. Mr. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore
Phnom Penh - Secretary-General's press encounter at ASEAN Summit

11 November 2022

Phnom Penh - Secretary-General's remarks to the 12th ASEAN-UN Summit [as delivered]
New York - Note to correspondents - on today's meeting in Geneva
Beijing - Deputy Secretary-General's video message to International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security

10 November 2022

New York - Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council High-Level Debate on “Counter-Terrorism in Africa - An Imperative for Peace, Security and Development"

09 November 2022

Sharm El-Sheikh - Secretary-General's remarks at launch of Al Gore's Climate TRACE initiative [as delivered]

08 November 2022

Sharm El-Sheikh - Secretary-General's remarks at launch of report of High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments [as delivered]
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's acceptance remarks at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards [as prepared for delivery]
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at reception ahead of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Conference [as delivered]

07 November 2022

Sharm El-Sheikh - Secretary-General's remarks to High-Level opening of COP27 - as delivered [scroll down for all English version]
Sharm El-Sheikh - Secretary-General's remarks at the launch of the Early Warnings for All Executive Action Plan [as delivered]
Rio de Janeiro - Secretary-General's video message to the International Forum on Government Audit
Sharm El-Sheikh - Secretary-General's joint press encounter with Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif
Buenos Aires - Deputy Secretary-General's video message for the Closing of the 15th Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Yogyakarta - Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the Opening of the 7th International Conference on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics

06 November 2022

Sharm el Sheikh - Secretary-General's video message on the Launch of the World Meteorological Organization's Provisional State of the Global Climate Report 2022

05 November 2022

New York - Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the Global Town Hall, "Sustaining Peace and Development in a Divided and Dangerous World"

04 November 2022

New York - Secretary-General's remarks at the 70th Anniversary of United Nations Guided Tours [as delivered by the Deputy Secretary-General]
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at the 70th Anniversary of United Nations Guided Tours [as delivered]
New York - Mr. Pedro Manuel Moreno of Spain - Deputy Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

03 November 2022

New York - Secretary-General's remarks at Security Council open debate on Integrating Effective Resilience-Building in Peace Operations for Sustainable Peace [as delivered]
New York - Secretary-General's message on the Launch of the United Nations Environment Programme Adaptation Gap Report
New York - Secretary-General's video message to the UN Foundation's Leadership Awards Dinner
New York - Secretary-General's press encounter on Black Sea Grain Initiative
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at the UN Foundation Leadership Awards Dinner [as delivered]
Virtual - Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the launch of Global Centre for Adaptation's (GCA) State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa Report
Florence - Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the Leading Minds Conference

02 November 2022

New York - Secretary-General's message on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists [scroll down for French version]
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the Black Sea Grain Initiative
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the Agreement for Lasting Peace through a Permanent Cessation of Hostilities between the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation

01 November 2022

Algiers, Algeria - Secretary-General's remarks at the Summit of the League of Arab States [English, as delivered, below; scroll further down for all-French and all-Arabic]
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General -  on the completion of the first trial of the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic [scroll down for French]
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's video message to UN Association New York Gala Dinner

31 October 2022

New York - Secretary-General's message on World Cities Day [scroll down for French version]
Berlin - Secretary-General's video message to Club De Madrid Annual Policy Dialogue
Bilbao - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at the Opening of the Local2030 Coalition Secretariat and celebration of World Cities Day [as prepared for delivery]
New York - Mr. Faisal Shahkar of Pakistan - United Nations Police Adviser in the Department of Peace Operations (DPO)
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the bridge collapse in India

30 October 2022

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman 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 the Black Sea Grain Initiative
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the Republic of Korea
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on Somalia

29 October 2022

New York - Readout of the Secretary-General's phonecall with H.E. João Lourenço, President of Angola
New York - Note to Correspondents: Black Sea Grain Initiative

28 October 2022

Abuja - Secretary-General's video message to the Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week 2022
Brussels - Secretary-General's video message to the EU Sustainable Investment Summit
Abuja - Secretary-General's video message for the Global Media and Information Literary (MIL) Week 2022
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on Iraq

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