While hope for peace is alive in Colombia as the country prepares for presidential elections, the Security Council today heard that achieving it — and making it last — still requires the full implementation of a peace accord signed almost 10 years ago.
With violence marring an Orthodox Easter truce, and no significant diplomatic progress, civilians continue to pay the highest price for the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the Security Council heard today.
The United Nations presence in South Sudan is both critical and constrained, the Security Council heard today, as speakers offered their visions for how the Organization’s peacekeeping mission should operate amid steep financial and operational challenges in the world’s youngest, yet highly fragile, nation.
The General Assembly today heard explanations from China and the Russian Federation regarding their use of the veto on 7 April, when they rejected a Security Council draft resolution submitted by Gulf States aimed at securing freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions across the Middle East.
Amid a review of United Nations peacekeeping operations, the Security Council heard today that the challenging conditions in which these missions carry out the UN’s core purpose of helping to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” are being made more complex due to severe financial constraints.
Despite diplomatic progress aimed at ending the brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, senior officials today warned the Security Council that violence in the country’s east continues unabated — with millions of women and girls disproportionately affected — and risks jeopardizing an otherwise positive trajectory in the wider Great Lakes region.
Yemen must not be drawn into the escalating conflict in the Middle East, speakers told the Security Council today, stressing the need for de-escalation, political progress and urgent humanitarian funding for a country and people precariously positioned in a volatile region.
The Security Council today renewed until 15 August 2027 the mandate of the Panel of Experts tasked with monitoring the implementation of sanctions on Libya and extended until 1 August 2027 the authorization for Member States to take measures against the illicit export of petroleum from the country.
Conceived as a project of peace in the wake of the Second World War, the European Union today remains one of the United Nations’ staunchest and most important regional partners, senior officials from both organizations told the Security Council today, even some delegates sparred over the bloc’s influence in an increasingly multipolar and unstable world.
While successful legislative elections in Kosovo at the close of 2025 featured broad participation, the Security Council today heard that challenges for minority communities there remain, as members discussed the future of the United Nations’ presence in the region.
