In a high-level meeting to review implementation of the New Urban Agenda 10 years after its adoption, speakers in the General Assembly today both underscored the connection between urban policy and sustainable development and urged renewed action towards both given flagging global progress.
The high-level political forum on sustainable development concluded its 2026 session today, adopting a ministerial declaration, as amended, calling for transformative, equitable, innovative and coordinated action to accelerate implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Goals.
The International Criminal Court has made major strides in investigating crimes committed recently in Sudan’s Darfur region — including linking grave crimes against civilians directly with the perpetrators — the Security Council heard today, as its deputy prosecutor described a “breakthrough” marked by her Office’s expanded cooperation and its accelerated interviews with witnesses.
The Security Council met today to review implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement in Colombia as the country enters a political transition following closely contested and polarizing presidential elections, with speakers underscoring the importance of maintaining continuity in implementation and preserving the Agreement as a State policy regardless of changes in Government.
As the Security Council adopted a resolution extending the Secretary-General’s monthly reporting mandate concerning Houthi attacks in the Red Sea for six additional months, the representatives of United States and China exchanged words about the causes and solutions for the current volatility in the Middle East.
Renewed diplomacy across West Africa and the Sahel is beginning to yield tangible improvements, even as an increasingly sophisticated terrorist threat continues to wreak havoc across the region, particularly in the central Sahel and northern Nigeria, the senior UN official for the region told the Security Council today.
Holding an emergency meeting following reports of unauthorized Iranian flights to and from Yemen in recent days, the Security Council today heard, once again, that de-escalation must be the priority so that Yemen is not further entangled in the conflict destabilizing the region.
With just four years remaining to achieve the vision laid out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, only a third of its targets remain on track or are progressing, senior UN officials told the Economic and Social Council’s annual High-Level Political Forum Ministerial Segment today, warning that “we’re now entering the toughest stretch in our journey”.
The General Assembly decided today that the 2027 high-level meeting on universal health coverage will be convened under the theme, “Universal health coverage: accessible and affordable health for all by 2030”, adopting a modalities resolution for the one-day New York gathering that surmounted two proposals by the Russian Federation to alter language around stakeholder participation.
Following the collapse of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the region’s chaotic recent military escalations, the United Nations dedicated nuclear agency has “lost continuity of knowledge” about the Iranian nuclear programme it was once tasked with overseeing, the Security Council heard today, in a briefing by the Organization’s senior political affairs officer.
