Key Highlights
- It also urged people to follow @UNinHindi for more updates on the UN’s work.
- In a first, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had issued his New Year’s message for the year 2026 in Hindi, among other languages.
- Guterres’ New Year message was issued in 11 languages, including the six official UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, as well as Hindi and Urdu.
- His video message on the occasion was issued with Hindi subtitles as well.
- In 2018, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between India and the UN Department of Global Communications establishing the ‘Hindi@UN’ Project, with a primary focus on broadcasting UN news in Hindi.
