Browsing: Antonio Guterres

In delegating development coordination to Mohammed, Guterres set in motion the most ambitious reform in the history of the UN development system.

Kroslak succeeds Joanne Adamson of the United Kingdom, who recently completed her assignment.

Guterres, in his message to mark the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, lamented that COVID-19 has continued to demonstrate how quickly an infectious disease can sweep across the world.

Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said this at a news conference on Wednesday at the UN headquarters in New York.

Guterres spoke in a meeting with Buhari on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly taking place in New York.

The UN chief gave the commendation at a meeting with the Nigerian president at the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly taking place in New York.

Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for UN Secretary-General, said this while briefing correspondents at UN headquarters in New York on Friday on the humanitarian situation in North East Nigeria.

Eri Kaneko, the Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, revealed this.

The agency said as many as 132 million additional people went hungry in 2020 because of the pandemic.

The President buttressed that drug war was dangerous than wars against insurgency and banditry because it targeted three generations for destruction.

“The violations of greatest exponential growth in 2020 were abduction, by a staggering 90 per cent, and rape and other forms of sexual violence which rose by 70 per cent,” the office of Virginia Gamba, the UN special representative for children and armed conflict said.

The president’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Saturday.

António Guterres on Friday asked Mohammed to serve as Deputy Secretary-General for a second term, shortly after the UN General Assembly re-appointed him for a second term.

Guterres, whose first five-year term began on January 1, 2017 and ends on December 31, 2021, was the sole candidate from the UN’s 193 member states to vie for the top job.

No fewer than 27 were kidnapped in the night raid on the boarding school, reports say.

Speaking at a news conference in New York, Guterres said he placed Drummond on leave pending ongoing investigation by the organisation into the matter.

Guterres stated this in a video message to a high-level webinar on the African COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Development Strategy on Wednesday evening.

“There’s no time to waste,” Biden said before signing executive orders in the White House

“Together, let’s make peace among ourselves and with nature, tackle the climate crisis, stop the spread of COVID-19 and make 2021 a year of healing,” the UN chief said.

More than 300 children are reported to be still missing, with many feared abducted, after gunmen stormed the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, late Friday evening.