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class="block block-views clearfix"> <div class="view view-ossg-frontpage-slider view-id-ossg_frontpage_slider view-display-id-block_2 view-dom-id-17f714a6bf794d27475669b7b2ed70f5"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item row" data-dot="1"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160246"> <div class="col-md-8"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="https://www.un.org/sg/sites/www.un.org.sg/files/images/slider/English/Guterres-SC.jpg" width="1150" height="505" alt="António Guterres addresses UN Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security with a focus on practicing multilateralism, reforming and improving global governance. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe" title="António Guterres addresses UN Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security with a focus on practicing multilateralism, reforming and improving global governance. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe" /> <p><strong>UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe</strong> António Guterres addresses UN Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security with a focus on practicing multilateralism, reforming and improving global governance.</p> </div> </a> <div class="col-md-4"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160246"> <h3>Amid ‘clear’ threat of nuclear war, Guterres tells Security Council multilateral off-ramp is essential</h3> </a> <p>Strengthening international cooperation and delivering on a UN pact that calls for reforming global governance, among other measures, was the focus of debate in the Security Council. The ministerial-level meeting was convened by China, which holds the rotating Council presidency this month, as the UN prepares to mark its 80th anniversary later this year. UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the debate emphasizing that “global solidarity and solutions are needed more than ever” as the climate crisis rages and inequalities and poverty increase.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item row" data-dot="2"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160176"> <div class="col-md-8"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="https://www.un.org/sg/sites/www.un.org.sg/files/images/slider/English/Guterres-AU.jpg" width="1150" height="505" alt="Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks at the 2025 African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. UNECA/Daniel Getachew " title="Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks at the 2025 African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. UNECA/Daniel Getachew " /> <p><strong>UNECA/Daniel Getachew </strong> Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks at the 2025 African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.</p> </div> </a> <div class="col-md-4"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160176"> <h3>Africa 'brimming with hope and possibility': Guterres</h3> </a> <p>Secretary-General, António Guterres, emphasized the potential of Africa and its young population and called for global reforms to right the injustices of the past, in remarks delivered to the high-level African Union (AU) summit. “The partnership between the United Nations and the African Union has never been stronger,” said the UN chief, striking a positive tone from the outset. “Together, we see an Africa brimming with hope and possibility.” The Secretary-General noted the “booming, enterprising” young population of the continent and the wealth of renewable resources it offers, and expressed high hopes for the future of the African Continental Free Trade Area.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item row" data-dot="3"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160146"> <div class="col-md-8"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="https://www.un.org/sg/sites/www.un.org.sg/files/images/slider/English/Guterres-AU-01.jpg" width="1150" height="505" alt="Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the humanitarian conference. UNECA/Daniel Getachew " title="Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the humanitarian conference. UNECA/Daniel Getachew " /> <p><strong>UNECA/Daniel Getachew </strong> Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the humanitarian conference.</p> </div> </a> <div class="col-md-4"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160146"> <h3>World must not turn its back on Sudan’s deepening crisis: Guterres</h3> </a> <p>UN Secretary-General called on the international community to urgently scale up funding and diplomatic action to ease the suffering of millions of Sudanese facing hunger and displacement as rival militaries continue battling each other for control. Speaking at a high-level humanitarian conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, António Guterres described the situation in Sudan as a catastrophe of “staggering scale and brutality”. He warned that it is increasing spilling into the wider region. </p> </div> </div> <div class="item row" data-dot="4"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159851"> <div class="col-md-8"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="https://www.un.org/sg/sites/www.un.org.sg/files/images/slider/English/Guterres-DRC.jpg" width="1150" height="505" alt="Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN Photo/Loey Felipe " title="Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN Photo/Loey Felipe " /> <p><strong>UN Photo/Loey Felipe </strong> Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.</p> </div> </a> <div class="col-md-4"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159851"> <h3>Guterres appeals for mediation to end crisis in eastern DR Congo</h3> </a> <p>Now is the time to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Secretary-General said in a briefing to journalists in New York. António Guterres made the “special appeal for peace” ahead of two major meetings to address the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group’s brutal offensive across the region. “We are at a pivotal moment and it is time to rally together for peace,” he said, speaking from the Security Council stakeout position.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item row" data-dot="5"> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159996"> <div class="col-md-8"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="https://www.un.org/sg/sites/www.un.org.sg/files/images/slider/English/Guterres-Paris-AI.jpg" width="1150" height="505" alt="Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the AI Action Summit in Paris, France. United Nations/Marie Etchegoyen " title="Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the AI Action Summit in Paris, France. 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