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  1. Secretary-General's remarks at the UNDP Climate Promise 2025 Launch [as delivered]

    ... April 2024 Excellencies, Friends. It’s a pleasure to join you for the launch of The Climate Promise 2025.  This ... UN system coming together: helping governments [rise] to the moment, seize the opportunity, and create new national climate plans aligned ...

  2. Secretary-General's video message to the Austria World Summit

    ... organizing this important Summit.  If there was ever a time to come together and deliver on climate – it is now. We are truly at a moment of truth. We are pushing planetary boundaries to the brink – ...

  3. Secretary-General’s remarks at annual UN International Holocaust Remembrance at Park East Synagogue [as delivered]

    ... “I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger.” David himself wrote these words, at the ... – encouraging them to paint or draw so that, if only for a moment, they might feel safe. In 1944, Friedl and her students were murdered in ...

  4. Secretary-General's remarks at the United Nations Memorial Ceremony Marking the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust [bilingual as delivered; scroll down for all-English]

    ... and hatred. At its essence, Holocaust remembrance is a call to be on constant alert. Never to be silent in the face of hate. ... – encouraging them to paint or draw so that, if only for a moment, they might feel safe. In 1944, Friedl and her students were murdered in ...

  5. Secretary-General's remarks at the Opening of the 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women [scroll down for all-English and all-French versions]

    ... Mr. Chair, Excellencies, dear friends, Allow me a particular word of welcome to our friends from civil society – you drive ... existe un antidote. Cet antidote est l’action. Le moment est venu pour celles et ceux d’entre nous qui se soucient de ...

  6. Secretary-General's remarks to the Virtual High-Level Segment of the 16th Petersberg Climate Dialogue [as delivered]

    ... focus today on collective climate action and acceleration of implementation.  This could not be more timely.  There is much ... Renewable Energy Agency officially confirmed that 2024 was a record year for renewables additions to global power capacity.  ... We are at a turning point.  I urge you to seize this moment; and seize the prize. Thank you.   ...

  7. Secretary-General's remarks at the Ceremony marking the 600th Anniversary of the University of Leuven [as delivered]

    ... this honour at this consequential time, you are sending a clear message.   A message of support for the noble mission of the ... is the time.   Your 600th anniversary coincides with a moment of reflection for the United Nations.   2025 marks our ...

  8. Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council - on Artificial Intelligence [bilingual, as delivered]

    ... feel like technology is moving very fast must understand a simple fact: Technology will never move in the future as slowly as today. ... internationaux accroît le risque pour nous tous. Every moment of delay in establishing international guardrails increases the risk for ...

  9. Secretary-General's press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    ... that despite the many tests facing Africa, we start from a position of strength.  As I said in my remarks to leaders this morning, ... the risks of regional expansion are very high at the present moment, since the offensive into Bukavu. At the same time, there are a ...

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

    ... is 54 years old, and as it was said, 54 years ago, I was a student at a university in Lisbon, and my school was called, I will say in ... by the rich, to serve the interests of the rich. This is the moment to change it. And that is why I encourage India’s engagement in ...