Responding to questions, Guterres said it was true that the COVID-19 crisis is diverting attention from many other issues. He said the world needed to be able to respond to the crisis while also addressing other major concerns
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres checks his notes ahead of holding a virtual press briefing on the ongoing global Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on 19 March 2020 at United Nations, New York
Hillary Clinton former United States Secretary of State, deliveres the keynote address at the meeting of the Group of Friends of Women in Afghanistan
Grammy Award-winning singer and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Angélique Kidjo performs at an event marking International Women’s Day (8 March)
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation concerning Iraq
Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said, “after two years of the Astana understandings, and after a year and a half of the Sochi agreements, the Turkish regime turned the observation posts on Syrian territory, which were supposed to control the activities of terrorists, preventing terrorists from committing those terrorists acts and thereby repelling any aggression on the positions of the Syrian Arab Army and the Russian forces, so, those observation posts were turned into operations rooms and ways to support terrorist organizations.”
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed signs a book of condolences on the passing of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, former President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, briefs the Security Council meeting on non-proliferation and supporting the Non-proliferation Treaty ahead of the 2020 Review
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the latest developments in Syria. At right is Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General on 21 February 2020 at United Nations, New York
Olof Skoog Head of Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Central African Republic