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Delegates Stress Need to Adequately Fund Peacekeeping, Urge Agreement on Financing Device for Peacebuilding Activities, as Fifth Committee Begins Resumed Session

GA/AB/4418

Delegates of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today urged each other to build on their momentum as they consider the Secretariat’s $6.8 billion budget for 11 peacekeeping operations and agree on a financing device for peacebuilding activities.

Peace Begins with Me: A Photographic Journey Through 75 Years of United Nations Peacekeeping, at Headquarters, 1 May – 6 June

Note No. 6552

United Nations Peacekeeping today launched a special photo exhibition at Headquarters in New York to honour the service and sacrifice of uniformed and civilian peacekeepers as it marks its seventy-fifth anniversary.

Secretary-General Appoints Clementine Nkweta-Salami of Cameroon Deputy Special Representative, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan

SG/A/2195

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Clementine Nkweta-Salami of Cameroon as his Deputy Special Representative for Sudan with the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS).