Azerbaijan


Noon Briefings

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) continues to observe Israel Defense Forces military activities in southern Lebanon, including air violations by drones and shelling from the south of the Blue Line with three impacts in Sector West of the peacekeeping missions just yesterday.

Noon Briefings

The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that over 1 million people in Myanmar will be cut off from food assistance, starting in April, due to critical funding shortages. The cuts will also impact almost 100,000 internally displaced people in Rakhine, who will have no access to food without WFP assistance.

Press Release
SG/T/3408

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, 11 November, to attend the twenty-ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP29.

Noon Briefings

A report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) states that explosive weapons were responsible for nearly half of the more than 47,500 children killed or maimed in more than 24 different conflict zones between 2018 and 2022. The vast majority of these instances occurred in populated areas.