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  1. Secretary-General's video message to the 35th Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union [trilingual, as delivered, follows. Scroll further down for all-English and all-French versions]

    ... la vaccination pour toutes et pour tous. Je salue votre leadership dans la création de l’Équipe spéciale africaine d’acquisition ... to ignite the engine of economic recovery by reforming the global financial system. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals ...

  2. Secretary-General's video message at the Ninth Austrian World Summit

    ... friends, President Van der Bellen, thank you for your leadership. And my thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger.  It is fitting ... We must unite for action to accelerate it, and drive down global emissions: With new national climate plans from countries this year ...

  3. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at the closing of the 2025 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development [as prepared for delivery]

    ... negotiations on the outcome document. The renewed global financing framework that we are about to deliver has to meet the scale ... and resilient pathways. And it should reflect the leadership and priorities of developing countries – placing them at the ...

  4. Secretary-General's opening remarks at Town Hall Meeting with Women's Civil Society at the Commission on the Status of Women [as delivered]

    ... to be eradicated;   To centre the voices and leadership of young women, the contribution of young women is more necessary ... when my generation is showing its inability to deal with the global challenges we have in the world;   And finally for every ...

  5. Secretary-General's remarks on the partnership between India and the United Nations on India’s 75th anniversary

    ... I said, very much at home at IIT Bombay. The Institute’s global mission and long history of transformative education make this the ideal ... poverty and the climate crisis.  I welcome India’s leadership in converting domestic climate action into international ...

  6. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks on the Occasion of Closing of the Special Event on Transforming Education [as prepared for delivery]

    ... appreciation to President Sahle Wok Zewde for her continued leadership and drive for education transformation. Finally, I wish to thank ... the Secretary-General put forward a concrete plan to end the global crisis in education and shift the trajectory towards achieving SDG4 by ...

  7. Secretary-General's remarks to the opening of the Pacific Islands Forum

    ... by next year, aligning with the 1.5-degree upper limit of global heating. The G20 – the biggest emitters responsible for 80 per ... States have a moral and practical imperative to take your leadership and your voice to the global stage. You demonstrated this ...

  8. Secretary-General's video message to the C40 World Mayors Summit

    ... cascading food, energy and cost of living crises. Your leadership is essential to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in ... countries -- are shutting the door on our chance to limit global temperature rise to 1.5-degrees. Globally, we need to reduce ...

  9. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks to the meeting of the UNESCO Executive Board [as prepared for delivery]

    ... greatly appreciates our collaboration with UNESCO and its leadership in several areas. We commend, in particular, UNESCO’s work to ... Director-General Giannini to elevate education on the global agenda and accelerate implementation of SDG4. We are meeting at a ...

  10. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks to Member State Briefing on the System-Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan [as delivered]

    ... to enable an organizational culture capable of fulfilling global commitments and upholding human rights principles, enshrined in the UN ... in gender equality.  Second, gender-transformative leadership, that personally and actively advances gender equality in the ...