​​​​​​​Addressing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as they arise cannot replace efforts to resolve core issues driving the conflict, a senior United Nations official for the region told the Security Council today, as Council members stressed the need to implement a two-State solution while other delegates criticized the organ’s inability to meaningfully resolve a crisis that has persisted for over 70 years.

On 26 July 2022, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) enacted the amendments, specified with strikethrough and underline, in the entries below on its Sanctions List of individuals and entities.

The General Assembly established the United Nations Board of Auditors in 1946 as an important mechanism to promote accountability and transparency in the United Nations. The Board performs external audit of the accounts of the United Nations organization and its funds and programmes and reports its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) as also to individual governing bodies not under the General Assembly. The members of the Board have collective responsibility for the audits and approved 23 reports at their regular session at United Nations Headquarters, New York, and remotely from Santiago, Bonn, Beijing and Paris from 20—21 July 2022 (refer to annex).

In Ukraine, the United Nations and its humanitarian partners delivered 50 tons of relief supplies for 5,000 people to Stepnohirsk, which is close to the front lines in south-eastern Zaporizka oblast. The convoy contained life-saving supplies, including medicine, food, blankets and other essentials.

Despite the creation of a road map to bring Libya closer to essential presidential elections, the conflict-torn country remains enmeshed in a volatile environment fuelled by dire economic conditions, demonstrations and clashes between armed militias, a United Nations senior official told the Security Council today.

​​​​​​​The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

​​​​​​​The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ronaldo Costa Filho (Brazil):

​​​​​​​Following consultations with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, and with her concurrence, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Professor Tshilidzi Marwala of South Africa as Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo.

​​​​​​​United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Li Junhua of China as the next Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.  He will succeed Liu Zhenmin of China, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his commitment and dedicated service to the Organization.

​​​​​​​The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its fifty-ninth session from 20-22 July 2022 under a hybrid format at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.  The session was presided over by the Chair, Janet St. Laurent.  All the other members of the Committee, namely Dorothy Bradley, Anton Kosyanenko and Imran Vanker, were in attendance throughout the session, with the exception of Agus Pramono (Vice-Chair), who attended on the last day.