RC attends the 2025 Global Resident Coordinators Meeting in New York
New York, 1-5 December 2025
UN Resident Coordinator Joe Colombano attended the 2025 Global Resident Coordinators Meeting held under the theme “The role of Resident Coordinators in 2026: Leading a stronger, more effective UN in countries for SDG acceleration” on 1- 5 December in New York. The agenda of the meeting included dedicated dialogues with Secretary-General António Guterres, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, representatives of UN member states, and UN Principals. Discussions focused on the RCs’ convening and coordinating role to leverage UNCT capacity to advance the SDGs at country-level, in the context of the Secretary-General’s UN80 initiative.
On the margins of the event, RC Colombano paid a visit to the Permanent Representative of the DPRK to the United Nations, Ambassador Kim Song. The RC also met with colleagues from the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the Development Coordination Office (DCO).
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