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India contributes $50,000 to UN Youth Envoy’s office

India has contributed $50,000 to United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Office of Envoy on Youth to help with its mission of involving young people in the world body’s goals. The contribution was handed over by Paulomi Tripathi, a First Secretary in India’s UN Mission to the Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake. Key Facts The ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2018

Topics: António Guterres • India-UN • Office of Envoy on Youth • United Nations • Youth Development

Japan to host ministerial meeting of UNSC on North Korea’ nuclear efforts

Japan will host a ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on December 15, which will be focused on finding peaceful ways to pressure North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and de-nuclearise the Korean peninsula. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to brief the council. This year’s meeting has the backing ..

Topics: António Guterres • Awards • Nuclear program of North Korea • Orders, decorations, and medals • Underground nuclear weapons testing

Peter Thomson appointed as first special envoy for oceans by United Nations

Peter Thomson, the outgoing president of the General Assembly, has been appointed as the first special envoy for the oceans by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Thomson played a leading role at the first-ever UN conference on oceans in June 2017. The 193 UN member states issued an urgent call for action to reverse the ..

Topics: António Guterres • Orders, decorations, and medals • Organizations • Peter Thomson • United Nations • United Nations Ocean Conference

Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed announced as new UN deputy Secretary General

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has confirmed Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General (DSG). He has also appointed Maria Viotti of Brazil (Chef de Cabinet) and Kyung-Wha Kang of the Republic of Korea as Special advisor on policy (new role to be created). Amina Mohammed is Nigeria’s Environment minister. She has been instrumental in ..

Topics: Amina J. Mohammed • António Guterres • Ban Ki-moon • BBC 100 Women • Chivalric orders • Kang Kyung-wha • Orders, decorations, and medals • United Nations • United Nations Secretariat

Antonio Guterres sworn in as UN Secretary General

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres (67) was sworn in as the 9th UN Secretary-General. He was administered the Oath of Office by Peter Thomson, President of UN General Assembly at special plenary meeting. He succeeds Ban Ki-moon and shall have five-year term beginning January 1, 2017. Antonio Guterres was unanimously appointed by the UN ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2016

Topics: António Guterres • International • Persons in News • Portugal • UN Secretary-General • United Nations

Antonio Guterres sworn in as UN Secretary General

Antonio Guterres has sworn in as the ninth UN Secretary-General, succeeding Ban Ki-moon as the chief of the 71-year-old world body. Guterres was Portugal’s prime minister from 1995 to 2002 and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees from 2005 to 2015. At a special plenary meeting of the General Assembly, the Oath of Office to Guterres ..

Topics: António Guterres • Ban Ki-moon • Chivalric orders • Guterres • Orders, decorations, and medals • Peter Thomson • United Nations • United Nations Secretariat