United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Steven Hill of the United States as Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. He succeeds Stephen Mathias, also of the United States, to whom the Secretary-General expresses his deep gratitude for his dedicated service and long-standing commitment to the Organization.
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Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XVI Conference, in Geneva today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the High-level Event on Early Warnings for all at the Extraordinary Session of the World Meteorological Congress, in Geneva today:
On 21 October 2025, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al‑Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and/or underline in the entry below on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2734 (2024), and adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks for the Shared Lives, Shared Future exhibition, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Cities Day, observed on 31 October:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the fifty-third session of the Committee on World Food Security, in Rome today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development, in Aswan, Egypt, today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) of the General Assembly on the proposed programme budget for 2026, in New York today: