The UN Security Council is meeting for a high level briefing on the Ukraine war. The UN Secretary-General told foreign ministers and ambassadors that Russia's invasion of Ukraine since 2014, when Moscow took Crimea, was "a clear violation of the UN Charter." We'll have full coverage as it happens, and UN News app users can follow here.
The President of Iran told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the past year revealed to the world the true nature of the Israeli regime.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday called for a major overhaul of the United Nations, including a critical examination of the Organization's nearly eight decades-old Charter, blaming the incapacity of the international community to engage in sincere negotiations for the failure to find solutions to the world's problems.
The international community bears responsibility for its failure to stop the catastrophe in Gaza, the Amir of Qatar told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, emphasizing that after almost a year of conflict, it is no longer tenable to speak of Israel's right to defend itself without being complicit in justifying their actions.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for finance, climate action and peace to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the 2030 deadline.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday told the UN General Assembly that his nation had benefited from a wave of international solidarity in the battle to end apartheid and usher in a new democratic era.
United States President Joe Biden told leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday that with the world at a historical inflection point "our task, our test, is to make sure that the forces holding us together are stronger than those that are pulling us apart."
Addressing world leaders at the UN General Assembly, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned that the United Nations is facing an unprecedented crisis, one that threatens its legitimacy and undermines global trust in its moral authority.
The world is locked in a "purgatory of polarity" with a growing number of governments and others feeling entitled to a "get out of jail free card", Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN General Assembly, which opened its annual high-level meeting on Tuesday.
As Lebanon mourns the victims of a wave of Israeli airstrikes believed to have left hundreds dead, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday against a return to the "dark days of 2006" when full-scale war broke out, calling for an urgent de-escalation and the protection of civilians.
Ongoing heavy fighting in Sudan has continued to kill and uproot the country's people who global leaders should remember as they gather in New York on Tuesday, UN humanitarians have said.
The world is on an unsustainable course, the UN Secretary General told world leaders gathered for the UN general debate in New York on Tuesday – but growing impunity, inequality and chaos must make way for accountability, justice and opportunity and a future of solutions, not endless conflict. UN News app users clickhere for a look back at our live coverage.
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