A bipartisan group of 33 U.S. senators is calling on the United Nations to set up an independent investigation into reports that Hamas terrorists committed acts of sexual violence during their Oct. 7 attacks across southern Israel. In a Dec. 11 letter to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, the senators criticized the U.N.’s proposal […]
United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that Sudan may be close to all-out-civil war after a weekend airstrike killed dozens in the city near the capital of Khartoum. In a written statement, a U.N. spokesperson expressed the secretary general’s fear that the ongoing conflict between warring armed forces has “pushed Sudan to the […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offered a grim outlook on the global economic during the World Economic Forum’s 2023 summit in Davos, Switzerland, warning of a possible worldwide economic downturn. “We are looking into the eye of a Category 5 hurricane. Our world is plagued by a perfect storm on a number of fronts,” Guterres […]
BERLIN—The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. “There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and developing countries gathered […]
On a visit to Moscow, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposes to coordinate with the Red Cross, Ukraine, and Russia to create humanitarian corridors out of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. And residents of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine say they are struggling to survive without many of the basics.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited Washington on June 28. He met with U.S. secretary of State Rex Tillerson. While at the State Department a reporter asked Guterres about the warning to Syria. On June 26 the Trump White House warned Syria not to launch any chemical attacks. The statement said Syria would pay “a […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)—U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is condemning the latest North Korean ballistic missile test as a violation of Security Council resolutions and a threat to peace and security in the region. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Guterres had called on North Korea to fully comply with its international obligations “and return […]
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said he hoped the recently resumed peace talks in Geneva would be an important step toward a comprehensive solution to the 6-year-old crisis in Syria on Tuesday, March 28. Before making these remarks, Guterres visited the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. The camp holds 80,000 people who have fled […]
The spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday (March 15) said a U.N. agency report published the same day accusing Israel of imposing an apartheid regime of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people “does not reflect the views of the secretary-general.” The report commissioned by the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia […]
