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Secretary-General António Guterres visits the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima during his trip to Japan reiterating his call on world leaders to urgently eliminate stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Display of the clothes of victims of the nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.Secretary-General António Guterres shows a paper crane origami on his hand with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum dome in the background during his trip to Japan reiterating his call on world leaders to urgently eliminate stockpiles of nuclear weapons.Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations, attends her last Security Council meeting as Permanent Representative of Ireland. The Security Council met on the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine.Barbara Woodward (centre left), Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, speaks with Linda Thomas-Greenfield (centre right), Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya. The Security Council adopted resolution 2647 (2022) extending the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until 31 October 2022. The resolution was adopted with 12 votes in favour, none against and 3 abstentions (Gabon, Ghana and Kenya).Martin Ewi (on screen), Senior Researcher of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), briefs the Security Council members on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts. The Council heard the fifteenth report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da'esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations efforts in support of Member States in countering the threat.Secretary-General António Guterres (centre right) speaks with Courtenay Rattray (left), Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General and staff between meetings.Secretary-General António Guterres leaving the signing ceremony of the "Initiative on the Safe Transportation of Grain and Foodstuffs from Ukrainian Ports Document" at the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, Türkiye. He is greeted by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Türkiye (standing).Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August, briefs reporters on the programme of work of the Security Council for the month.Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Ann Christin Linde, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, attends the inaugural ceremony of the Abused Ammunition Sculpture. The sculpture is made by artist Thommy Bremberg in memory of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan. Their murder was an assault on the values of the United Nations – an attack on the mission that countless women and men around the world risk their lives every day to uphold, said the Secretary-General. The Abused Ammunition sculpture honours the mission by imagining the sorrow of inanimate objects – in this case, bullets – over the part they play in death and destruction.Gustavo Zlauvinen, President of the Review Conference for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), briefs reporters after the opening of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1-26 August).Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations, briefs reporters ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.Women in a training centre for traditional handicrafts, a project that is assisted by the United Nations Development Programme in Demra, Bangladesh. [No exact date]Ferit Hoxha (left), Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations, joined by other Security Council Member States, reads a statement on Georgia.Fouad Hussein (front), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, and his delegation leave the Security Council Chamber after the Council meeting on the situation concerning Iraq. At his right is Mohammed Hussein Bahr Aluloom, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations.Rafael Mariano Grossi (on screen), Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), addresses the Security Council on threats to international peace and security.George Foreman, the Heavy Weight World Champion, who is in New York to accept the Edward J. Neil Award as fighter of the year, visited United Nations Headquarters today. Mr. Bradford Morse, Under-Secretary-General, shaking hands with George Foreman. At center is Mr. Dick Sadler, George Foreman's Trainer Manager.At an international garden party given at UN Guest House, to raise funds for the International School, Ralph J. Bunche Jr. (far left), and Ralph J. Bunche Sr. (far right) ""take friends for a ride"".Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Emperor Naruhito of Japan.Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States of America, briefs reporters after addressing the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1-26 August).Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the first grain shipment from Ukraine since February. "This ship – the Merchant Vessel Razoni – is loaded with two commodities in short supply: corn, and hope. Hope for millions of people around the world who depend on the smooth running of Ukraine’s ports to feed their families," said the Secretary-General.

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