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Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly, speaks during the press conference with Abdulla Shahid, President of the seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, who briefs reporters on a number of topics such as Covid-19 vaccine, climate change, gender equality and more.César Núñez, Director of the UNAIDS New York Office, briefs reporters on World AIDS Day (1 December).Secretary-General António Guterres visits Lebanon to reaffirm the support of the work of the UN in Lebanon; including political teams, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers and development professionals, as well as for the country and its people. The Secretary-General will meet with Government officials, as well as a number of religious leaders and civil society. He will also travel to southern Lebanon to visit the UN Interim Force in Lebanon and tour parts of the Blue Line. Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) and Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon, briefs reporters in Beirut.The UN Department of Public Information (DPI) maintains at United Nations Headquarters a Visitors Service Section which handles queries from visitors and conducts public briefings and guided tours of the Headquarters buildings. The tour service began in October 1952; it was operated by the American Association for the United Nations until June 1955, when it became part of the DPI’s Public Liaison and Distribution Division. Initiated with a staff of 50 guides, the service is now manned by 70 of them and has conducted tours for over three million visitors. The tours can be conducted in any of 19 different languages. This picture shows five of the guides and two interns singing songs at a Christmas party at UN Headquarters. They are from left: Yassin El-Ayouty, intern from Egypt; Nille Neilsen, of Denmark; Wilma Klein, of the USA; S.T. Bhandary, intern from Nepal; Tyrre Tyspersen, of Denmark; Marjolijn Penraat, of the Netherlands; Patricia Dorsey of the USA. The interns are at the UN under a programme under which they spend a year at Headquarters, serving part of their time as guides, when they are not attending an extensive course of lectures and seminars on the United Nations.Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks at a special event entitled, “Delivering on the Global Education Promise”, marking the first anniversary of the Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI). The event was co-organized by the Initiative’s Secretariat and UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).A wide view of the Security Council Chamber as Filippo Grandi (on screen), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, briefs the Security Council.Secretary-General António Guterres visits Lebanon to reaffirm the support of the work of the UN in Lebanon; including political teams, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers and development professionals, as well as for the country and its people. The Secretary-General will meet with Government officials, including President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Mikati, as well as a number of religious leaders and civil society. He will pay tribute to the victims of the Beirut Port blast and will also undertake field visits to interact with people impacted by the numerous crises the country has been facing. Finally, the Secretary-General will travel to southern Lebanon to visit the UN Interim Force in Lebanon and tour parts of the Blue Line. The Secretary-General visits the port of Beirut to pay tribute to the victims and observe a moment of silence. In August 2020 a large explosion took place in a warehouse in the port that destroyed much of the centre of Beirut. Thousands were injured and some 200 people lost their lives.Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine inequity, the climate crisis, the economic situation in the world, as well as his upcoming visit to Lebanon, during an end-of-year virtual press briefing.A view of midtown Manhattan skyline as seen from the UN Headquarters.Abdulla Shahid, President of the seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the 54th General Assembly meeting on elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, as well as a number of other topics.Mohammed El-Kurd, activist and Palestinian writer and poet from Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, addresses the special meeting of the General Assembly in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.Waad Al-Kateab, Syrian activist and award-winning filmmaker, addresses the Security Council Arria-formula meeting on Accountability in the Syrian Arab Republic. Security Council members Estonia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States, with additional co-sponsors Belgium, Canada, Germany, Georgia, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Qatar, Sweden and Turkey holds an informal briefing on the need for increased efforts by the Council to establish full accountability for the most serious international crimes committed in the Syrian Arab Republic.Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) meets with Mohamed Bazoum (not pictured), President of the Republic of Niger.Secretary-General António Guterres visits Lebanon to reaffirm the support of the work of the UN in Lebanon; including political teams, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers and development professionals, as well as for the country and its people. While there, the Secretary-General meets with Government officials, as well as religious leaders and civil society. The Secretary-General (centre) visits the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura. He is accompanied by Stefano Del Col, Head of Mission and Force Commander of UNIFIL.Secretary-General António Guterres visits Lebanon to reaffirm the support of the work of the UN in Lebanon; including political teams, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers and development professionals, as well as for the country and its people. While there, the Secretary-General meets with Government officials, as well as religious leaders and civil society. Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) salutes the Secretary-General as he visits the headquarters of UNIFIL in Naqoura. He is accompanied by Stefano Del Col, Head of Mission and Force Commander of UNIFIL. Here the Secretary-General is welcomed with a guard of honour at the UNIFIL headquarters.U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who arrived in Gaza on 23 December to spend Christmas with the troops of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), today visited the Yugoslav Battalion of UNEF at El Arish. Here the Secretary-General (centre) is seen with a group of officers of the Battalion as Lt. Col. S. Oro, Liaison Officer, points to a map to explain to the Secretary-General the points of deployment of the Battalion on the International Frontier in the Sinai Peninsula.Secretary-General António Guterres visits Lebanon to reaffirm the support of the work of the UN in Lebanon; including political teams, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers and development professionals, as well as for the country and its people. The Secretary-General will meet with Government officials, as well as a number of religious leaders and civil society. He will also travel to southern Lebanon to visit the UN Interim Force in Lebanon and tour parts of the Blue Line. Secretary-General António Guterres (third from right) greets school parliamentarians and committee members as he visits a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Tripoli, Lebanon.Henrietta H. Fore, outgoing Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), pays a farewell call on Secretary-General António Guterres.Anniken Huitfeldt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway, briefs reporters ahead of the Security Council briefing on refugees.

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