Headlines
  • According to US President Donald Trump, the United States is extending the cease-fire with Iran until Iran submits a proposal and talks conclude.
  • It has been decided to postpone Vice President JD Vance's trip to Islamabad for talks.
  • Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, hailed US President Donald Trump for accepting his country's request to extend the ceasefire.
  • US President Donald Trump said Iranian ports would remain blocked until Tehran presents a "unified proposal."
  • For the first time since a 10-day truce went into effect on Friday, the Iran-backed Hezbollah claimed to have fired rockets and drones at Israeli forces on Tuesday "in response to the blatant and documented violations" by Israel.

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February 1, 2020

Scene at United Nations Headquarters

A view of Manhattan through the window of the Secretary-General’s conference room

January 30, 2020

UN75 Dialogue with the Secretary-General “Youth...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres takes part in a UN75 Dialogue with youth on the theme “Youth in the Driving Seat”

January 28, 2020

Holocaust Memorial Ceremony “75 years after...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony “75 years after Auschwitz – Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice” on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

January 25, 2020

Meet the Author of “Invisible Women”

Caroline Criado Perez, author of “Invisible Women” signs her book at a “Meet the Author” event at the UN Bookshop. The book is the winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize

January 24, 2020

Opening of Exhibit “Reflections in a...

Lara Lempert Head of the Judaica Center at the Department of the Documentary Heritage Studies of the National Library of Lithuania, speaks at the opening of the exhibit “Reflections in a Shattered Mirror” on Lithuania’s Jewish past

Scene at United Nations Headquarters

A view of the sun rising behind Long Island City and the sculpture, “Good Defeats Evil”, by Zurab Tsereteli, in the north garden area of UN Headquarters. The sculpture, presented by the Soviet Union in 1990, depicts St. George slaying the dragon

January 21, 2020

Graduation Ceremony for All Female New...

Olga Cristina Panait, one of thirteen new United Nations Security Officers, poses for a photo with her child at her graduation ceremony for new Security Officers held on 20 January at UN Headquarters. The group consists of thirteen female officers

January 16, 2020

Sculpture Decorated with Croatian Cravat at...

A special decorating ceremony took place at UN Headquarters on 15 January 2020 and the “Peace Monument” sculpture was decorated with the Croatian cravat. The event symbolically marks the beginning of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and was organized by the Permanent Mission of Croatia to the United Nations

January 10, 2020

UN Security Council Meets on Maintenance...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrives to attend the Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security and upholding the United Nations Charter on 9 January 2020

December 31, 2019

Visitor at United Nations Headquarters

A visitor tours the exhibition space at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, which has been open to the general public since November 1952

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