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The Security Council today will hold a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, focusing on efforts to eliminate the Syrian chemical weapons programme in accordance with resolution 2118 (2013). UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu is expected to brief the organ on recent developments.

The General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will meet today to hear an update on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and briefings on the humanitarian situation. It will also elect a Bureau member and consider its draft 2026 annual report. The update will be provided by the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine, with briefings by Michel Saad, Deputy Director and Officer-in-Charge of the Crisis Response Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Jehan Salim, National Coordinator of the Palestine Shelter Cluster, the latter participating via videoconference.

At 10 a.m., the General Assembly will hold a debate on the situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in which over 30 representatives are expected to take the floor, including those from Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

The United Nations General Assembly will meet at 10 a.m. today to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests. Speakers from regional groups, international organizations and national delegations will address the harmful effects of nuclear testing and reaffirm the importance of ending such tests as a step towards a nuclear-weapon-free world.

The Security Council will meet today on Haiti following a deadly gang attack on 23–24 August in Kenscoff, a mountainous commune south-east of Port-au-Prince. The meeting was requested by Panama, United States and Colombia. Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) Carlos Ruiz Massieu and Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Indrika Ratwatte are expected to brief. Haiti and Brazil will participate under rule 37, which allows non-Council members to join the discussion without voting.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hear a briefing on political and humanitarian developments in Syria. Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Claudio Cordone is expected to brief.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hold an open briefing on “the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator at the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Ramiz Alakbarov, and Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov, are expected to brief, as is a civil society representative. Mr. Alakbarov is expected to update Council members on recent developments in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, where settlement expansion and settler violence have continued at historically high levels.

The Security Council will hold a high-level open debate on conflict-related food insecurity under the theme “Food under fire: the Security Council’s role in mitigating global and local food crises”. A signature event of Denmark’s Council presidency, the meeting will be chaired by Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen. UN Secretary-General Antόnio Guterres, Acting Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Carl Skau and a civil society representative are expected to brief.

At 3 p.m. today, the Security Council will hold a briefing on the situation in Ukraine. The Council’s five European members, Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia and the United Kingdom, requested the meeting, which Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is expected to chair. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher are expected to brief. Ukraine and several countries from the region are expected to participate under rule 37, which allows non-Council UN Member States to participate without a vote when their interests are affected.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hold a briefing on Sudan. Denmark, the Council President in August, requested the meeting to discuss the protection of civilians and the humanitarian consequences of the ongoing conflict. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is expected to chair the meeting. UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher are expected to brief, as is a woman civil society representative.