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Tackling World’s Water Crisis, Addressing Small Island States’ Resiliency Impeded by Extreme Weather Events, Mounting Debts, High-Level Political Forum Hears

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Against the backdrop of intensifying climate change, conflicts and loss of biodiversity, the world is experiencing a water crisis, and small island developing States’ resiliency is profoundly impeded by extreme weather events and mounting debt, making achieving the Sustainable Development Goals more challenging than ever, speakers stressed, as the high-level political forum on sustainable development — held under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council — continued its discussion today.

Briefers Urge Security Council to Independently Investigate 2022 Nord Stream Pipeline Incident as Members Assess Speed of National Inquiries

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Bringing the saboteurs of the two Nord Stream undersea gas pipelines to justice will reduce international friction and help prevent future attacks on critical international infrastructure, a journalist told the Security Council today, as delegates discussed both the progress of ongoing national investigations into the incident and the role the Council should play in that regard.