Antonio Guterres

Guterres calls to keep physical distance, wear face masks and wash hands

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the international community to come together to defeat the coronavirus, stressing that a vaccine alone can’t solve the crisis.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for $35 billion more, including $15 billion in the next three months, for the World Health Organization's 'ACT Accelerator' programme to back vaccines, treatments and diagnostics against COVID-19

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said food insecurity in conflict-affected countries is now further exacerbated by natural disasters, economic shocks and health crisesWidespread attacks on agriculture and looting of livestock and food, has left more that 1.4 million people in crisis

Prime Minister Modi announced an advance interim assistance of ₹1,000 crore for cyclone-hit West BengalThe Secretary-General expressed solidarity with the people of India and Bangladesh as they face the impact of a devastating cyclone while also responding to the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic

Guterres said in a statement it was "not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization

Antonio Guterres stressed the need for a coordinated global response to contain a 'health catastrophe'Antonio Guterres urged governments to give 'the strongest support to the multilateral effort to fight the virus'

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said there was no role or scope for any third-party mediation on the Kashmir issueAntonio Guterres, who is on a visit to Pakistan, said he was ready to help if both countries agreed for mediation

India has categorically told the international community that the scrapping of the Article 370 was an internal matterThe Prime Minister's Office said in a tweet the two leaders had 'fruitful discussions' on a wide range of subjects

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale said the main topic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's discussion with UN chief Antonio Guterres was the forthcoming COP24 climate change meeting in Poland from December 3