António Guterres

US believes its personal power matters more than international law, UN chief Guterres says

When confronted with disparaging statements US President Donald Trump made about the UN's effectiveness and purpose, António Guterres admitted that the UN had no leverage to force members to obey.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses delegates during a high-level meeting of heads of state on a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians at United Nations headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2025.
HOUTHI TERRORISTS carry weapons as they stand near the site of Israeli airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, in September.

UN chief condemns Houthi detention of another 10 UN staff in Yemen

 Gazans attempt to obtain bread in Nuseirat Camp, Gaza after limited aid deliveries arrive in the enclave on Friday, May 25, 2025.

Gazans crowd at bakery to access bread, social media shows, as aid deliveries trickle in

 Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a side event during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 26, 2024.

US deems Albanese unfit to serve as UN Special Rapporteur due to 'virulent antisemitism'


Antonio Guterres: 'Accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 must be investigated'

A UN commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exits the press room after speaking at the United Nations prior to a meeting about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023

Magen David Adom attacks UN: Attacks on Israelis not worthy of your 'horror'

Magen David Adom attacked the UN on X (Twitter) for refusing to acknowledge Hamas's targeting of Israeli first responders during the October 7 massacre.

Magen David Adom paramedics evacuate injured individuals in Israel.

‘Hamas exploits ambulances for terror:’ Israeli envoy slams UN chief

Gutteres was among the first to condemn Israel last month after a false report that a supposed Israeli airstrike had struck the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza.

 Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan shows a video on a portable device as he speaks to an emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., October 26, 2023.

An open letter to the UN secretary-general

There is never justification for murder, rape, burning, beheading, and the killing of a baby in its mother’s stomach. Terrorism can never be rationalized, or put into “context”.

 UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Antonio Guterres.

The context to Hamas's terrorist exploits - opinion

Islamic terror needs to be understood in context, though a completely different context from the one that Antonio Guterres suggests.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Albania's Foreign Minister Igli Hasani attend a meeting of the Security Council, October 24, 2023

My Word: Greta and Guterres - 'How dare you!'

It is the rhetorical question that should be asked of Greta Thunberg along with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. 

 LARGE TEDDY bears with splotches of red paint and the photographs of the children held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza are displayed at Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square on October 25

UN Guterres’s speech justified the unjustifiable - editorial

Guterres’s staggering argument was that "the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum."

 UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Antonio Guterres.

Guterres: I didn't justify Hamas terror

Israel's ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called for Guterres to resign and reissued that call against him on Wednesday after Guterres’ statement.

 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a press conference, ahead of G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, September 8, 2023.

UN called on to fire envoy for questioning Israel's right to defense

After Albanese questioned Israel's right to defend itself on her Twitter account, the International Legal Forum called for her dismissal.

THE UN Human Rights Council meets in Geneva, February 2020.

Will UN action on Iranian drones in Russia kill JCPOA negotiations? - analysis

UN Secretary-General presented a neutral and passive report to the UN Security Council regarding Iran's sale of drones to Russia on Monday.

 An Iranian missile is displayed during a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022.