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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

UN secretary-general

Seen through a Palestinian flag, people rally in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 29, 2012. (AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)
April 3, 2024, 8:41 am
Palestinians officially relaunch bid to become United Nations member state
Palestine Liberation Organization seeks recognition as state from world body, which granted it observer status in 2012, but vote on application can be vetoed by US
By Agencies and ToI Staff
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York on January 23, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
January 23, 2024, 11:25 pm
UN chief blasts Israel’s ‘unacceptable’ rejection of two-state solution
Addressing Netanyahu’s assertion that his plans for Israel run ‘contrary to a Palestinian state,’ Secretary-General Guterres warns such rhetoric would ’embolden extremists’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes a statement outside the Security Council at UN headquarters, March 14, 2022. (Richard Drew/AP)
July 18, 2022, 6:09 pm
UN chief warns humanity choosing ‘collective suicide’ with climate change inaction
Secretary-General Gutteres urges developed states to fulfill promises made to poorer countries for climate aid as small islands face ‘catastrophe’
By AP and ToI Staff
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following the talks in Moscow, Russia, May 12, 2021. (Maxim Shemetov, Pool via AP)
June 18, 2021, 7:24 pm
Guterres reelected UN chief; Erdan urges him to work to end anti-Israel bias
General Assembly unanimously elects Portuguese diplomat to a second four-year term; Guterres calls on nations ‘to do everything we can to overcome current geostrategic divides’
By Edith M. Lederer and ToI Staff
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldiers patrol along the border wall with Israel near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on December 4, 2018. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
May 7, 2020, 9:24 am
Israel urges major changes in UN peacekeeping in Lebanon, as it faces Hezbollah
Ambassador Danny Danon insists that peacekeepers have access to all sites in southern Lebanon, questions their purpose without freedom of movement
By Agencies
Former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim campaigns for president of Austria at Zistersdorf on April 30, 1986. Documents from the UN, reportedly showing Waldheim's knowledge of Nazi atrocities, were released in May to Israeli officials. (AP Photo/Werner Vollmann)
October 19, 2018, 3:11 pm
In film on Nazi-turned-UN head, director evokes memory of risky postwar populism
Opening Friday, documentary ‘The Waldheim Waltz’ is eerily contemporary, even for those born after the fury surrounding the 1986 election of former Wehrmacht officer Kurt Waldheim
By Jordan Hoffman
Former United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan poses during a photo session in Paris, December 11, 2017. (JOEL SAGET/AFP)
August 18, 2018, 2:03 pm
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dies at age 80
Nobel peace laureate and celebrated diplomat who worked to focus the world body’s agenda on human rights, passes away after an unspecified illness
By AP and ToI Staff
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, on June 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov)
June 23, 2018, 7:52 am
UN chief appeals for end to fighting in southern Syria
Guterres calls for return to ceasefire agreement in area near Israeli border, says regime offensive poses ‘significant risks’ to regional security
By AFP
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini addresses a press conference during a Foreign Ministers meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on March 19, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)
May 10, 2018, 11:32 pm
EU, British PM back Israel’s right to defend itself from Iranian strikes
UN secretary general urges ‘immediate halt to all hostile acts and any provocative actions’ as Security Council members refuse to call emergency meeting
By AFP and ToI Staff
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
August 22, 2017, 10:22 pm
UN chief to make first visit to Israel next week
Antonio Guterres to meet Netanyahu and Abbas, go to Gaza, during 3-day trip
By ToI Staff and AFP
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
August 4, 2017, 2:14 am
Newly appointed UN chief to make first visit to Israel
Antonio Guterres to meet Netanyahu and Abbas, go to Gaza, during 3-day trip at the end of August
By AFP
Antonio Guterres, newly confirmed as incoming UN secretary-general, with Israel's envoy to the UN Danny Danon, soon after the appointment of Guterres was endorsed, October 13, 2016 (Courtesy)
July 2, 2017, 1:18 pm
UN chief to visit Israel, Palestinian Authority next month
On first trip to region since becoming secretary-general, Antonio Guterres to meet with Netanyahu and Abbas, visit Yad Vashem
By Raphael Ahren
Antonio Guterres, newly confirmed as incoming UN secretary-general, with Israel's envoy to the UN Danny Danon, soon after the appointment of Guterres was endorsed, October 13, 2016 (Courtesy)
June 6, 2017, 2:40 pm
Israelis cry foul as UN leaders lament 50 years of ‘occupation’
UN envoy Danon blasts António Guterres’ ‘preposterous’ statement as ‘Palestinian misinformation’; deputy FM urges him to ‘correct the distortion’
By Raphael Ahren
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
May 30, 2017, 10:40 pm
UN chief: Denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism
In meeting with Simon Wiesenthal Center, Secretary General Guterres rejects efforts to deny Jewish history in the Holy Land
By ToI Staff
Palestinians inaugurate a square to commemorate Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist who killed dozens of Israeli civilians in a 1978 bus hijacking in Israel, seen in portrait, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
May 28, 2017, 7:38 pm
UN chief pulls support for Palestinian women’s center named after terrorist
Secretary-General Guterres says agency no longer affiliated with West Bank facility over its ‘glorification of terrorism’
By ToI Staff
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