Tag: Antonio Guterres

People clear debris of buildings damaged by Israeli airstrikes in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

Gaza: Israeli-Inflicted Death-Toll of UN Personnel Rises to 280! (20.3.2025)

UNITED NATIONS, March 19 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply saddened and shocked” by the death of a UN staff member during the Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip, condemning all attacks on UN personnel and calling for a full investigation, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

A United Nations Office for Project Services personnel was killed and five others seriously injured after two UN guesthouses in Deir al Balah, central Gaza, were hit in the strikes, the UN and Gaza-based health authorities confirmed Wednesday morning. The Israeli military denied attacking the compound.

The locations of all UN premises are known to the parties to the conflict, who are bound by international law to protect them and maintain their absolute inviolability, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said.

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Arab Aid to UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Continues to Decline in 2022: UNRWA Official! (18.9.2022)

He added that UNRWA is trying hard, with the help of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, to restore contact with many Arab countries that have suspended and reduced their financial aid.

Abu Hasna explained that the UN agency is counting on the success of the meeting of the donor countries, which will be held in New York on the side-lines of the meetings of the UN General Assembly.

“We hope to mobilize the required and enough financial support that would cover UNRWA’s financial deficit, which has reached 100 million US dollars,” he added.

He warned that “if there are no financial developments after the conference, the crisis will intensify in the coming months of November and December.”

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UN General Assembly President Calls for Solutions Through Solidarity, Sustainability, Science! (14.9.2022)

“We must do our utmost to uphold and protect the values and principles of the United Nations Charter. There can be no cherry-picking, certainly not in these most tumultuous and uncertain times,” he said, stressing the importance of conflict prevention.

“In recent weeks, we have (seen) record-setting temperatures, raging fires, and devastating floods. It looks as if mother nature is fighting back. But few of her weapons are as destructive as the ones that we have created ourselves. Never in the past 40 years has the risk of using nuclear weapons been greater than it is today,” he warned.

“This ominous reality calls on all of us to unite around the issue of disarmament. This also holds true for small arms and light weapons, the proliferation of which is a great obstacle to our development and progress around the world. We must work to stop their illicit trade,” said Korosi.

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Developed Countries Responsible for Vast Majority of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through History: UN Chief! (12.9.9.2022)

Earlier in a press conference on Friday, responding to Xinhua on carbon emission by the developed countries for centuries, Guterres called for effective support from the developed world to the most impacted developing countries to build resilience and adapt to the circumstances.

“This is not a matter of generosity. This is a matter of justice,” he said.

The secretary-general on Saturday, along with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and other officials, visited the flood-affected parts of Pakistan’s southern Sindh and southwest Balochistan provinces.

Apart from visiting the UNESCO’s World Heritage site of Mohenjo Daro in Sindh, which got damaged from the floods, he also met the displaced people in Sindh and Balochistan.

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