Meetings Coverage

United Nations officials today urged an inclusive political process for Yemen, warned that millions of people are being left without life-saving aid and demanded the release of detained UN and relief personnel.

As the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears four years, Security Council speakers today called for de-escalation and condemned Moscow’s supersonic missile strike near the border of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization country, along with other attacks that have killed civilians and left millions without heating amid the winter freeze.

The international community must seize the “critical opportunity” to obtain long-overdue clarifications on the Syrian chemical weapons programme, a senior United Nations disarmament official told the Security Council today, while that country’s representative promised to confront this legacy with courage and responsibility.

Amid a dramatic escalation between the United States and Venezuela, members of the Security Council were sharply divided over the fate of ousted President Nicolás Maduro Moros and next steps for his oil-rich nation, even as many delegates warned that Washington, D.C.’s, actions threaten the very foundations upon which the multilateral world order was built.

Emerging from complex negotiations, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today approved the United Nations programme budget for 2026, totalling $3.45 billion, as they concluded the main part of their eightieth session. The budget largely reflects the Secretary-General’s proposed 15 per cent reduction in financial resources and a nearly 19 per cent cut in staffing.

Following complex negotiations in its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), the General Assembly today adopted the United Nations programme budget for 2026 — totalling $3.45 billion — as it concluded the main part of its eightieth session.

Marking 30 years since the signing of the historic Dayton Peace Agreement — which ended the bloody Bosnian war of the 1990s — the Security Council today stressed its unwavering support for what is now the sovereign, independent, multi-ethnic State of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Security Council today renewed the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights for six months, until 30 June 2026, and requested the Secretary-General to ensure that the Force has the capacity and resources required to fulfil its mandate “in a safe and secure way”.

Unanimously adopting resolution 2810 (2025) (to be issued as document S/RES/2810(2025)), the Security Council renewed the mandate of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the expert body that supports the United Nations counter-terrorism architecture, until 5 January 2029.

Somalia today condemned Israel’s “flagrant assault” on its country’s unity and territorial integrity through recognition of “Somaliland”, as multiple Security Council members and regional States warned the move was a provocative step that could inflame tensions in the Horn of Africa and undercut Mogadishu’s sovereignty and political cohesion.