Travel

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Washington, D.C., from New York early on Friday morning, 14 October, to attend the annual shareholders meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

With the tragic situation facing millions of men, women and children impacted by historic floods in Pakistan, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres travelled to the country for a solidarity visit from 9 to 11 September.

​​​​​​​On Friday, 19 August, the Secretary-General travelled from Odesa to Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, where he met the President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, for a working dinner during which they reviewed the situation in  Moldova and the region in light of the on-going war in Ukraine.

​​​​​​​United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Lviv in the evening of Wednesday, 17 August, having travelled from New York via Warsaw, Poland.  He was greeted by Denise Brown, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ukraine.

The United Nations Secretary-General arrived in in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from Japan on Monday night, 8 August.

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Hiroshima from New York on the evening of Friday, 5 August.

​​​​​​​The Secretary-General arrived in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from Mongolia, on the evening of Thursday, 11 August.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres interrupted his annual leave to travel to Istanbul on the evening of Thursday, 21 July, to participate in the signing ceremony of the Black Sea Initiative which he had first proposed to the Russian Federation and Ukraine when he had visited both countries in April 2022.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres departed New York for Lisbon on Friday, 24 June. He would attend the 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference, which aimed to incentivize action to propel much needed science-based innovation solutions aimed at starting a new chapter of global ocean action.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres traveled from New York to Suriname on Friday, 1 July, for a two-day visit with a focus on the impacts of climate change on the environment and biodiversity.