[Bilingual, as-delivered version. Scroll down for all-English version ] I thank this month’s Presidency of the Security Council, Ethiopia, for being such a steadfast contributor to peacekeeping. Your personnel are on the…
The Secretary-General condemns the killing of a Tanzanian peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) on 17 September in Mamundioma, in North Kivu…
Secretary-General António Guterres addresses a press conference ahead of the general debate of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly, which begins on 19 September. New York, 13 September 2017 Ladies and gentlemen…
New York, 11 September 2017 Mr. President, Excellencies, Let me begin with a warm and heartfelt thank you to President of the 71st session of the General Assembly Peter Thompson. Thank you for your vision. Thank you for your…
New York, 6 September 2017 [as delivered] The report that informs today’s dialogue is my first on the responsibility to protect. It comes at a time when the need for strengthened efforts to prevent genocide, war crimes…
The Secretary-General welcomes the unanimous adoption by the Security Council of resolution 2373 extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) until 31 August 2018. The Secretary-General…
Georgette Gagnon, UN Human Rights Office Field Operations Director. Photo UN 25 August 2017 Good morning and thank you for joining us today. Over the past week, I visited Kinshasa and Kananga before arriving yesterday morning…
The Secretary-General condemns the attacks against camps of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Douenza and Timbuktu, in Mali. A UN peacekeeper, a Malian soldier and a…
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed meeting with President Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa on July 26, 2017. Photo MONUSCO/John Bompengo Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, Your Excellency…
SRSG Shearer - Regional protection Force - Press Conference (near verbatim) Ladies and Gentlemen Good morning and welcome to the RWANBATT compound here at Tomping. A number of you have reported over the weekend that the first…
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix: Thank you very much, and good afternoon all. I would like, first of all, to thank you for being here. As explained, I spent three days in South Sudan…
