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Extending Truce ‘Best Opportunity’ for Peace in Yemen, Special Envoy Tells Security Council, as Speakers Urge Reopening of Roads, More Funding for Aid Operations

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Extending Truce ‘Best Opportunity’ for Peace in Yemen, Special Envoy Tells Security Council, as Speakers Urge Reopening of Roads, More Funding for Aid Operations

Buoyed by the endurance of a truce in Yemen that expires in three weeks, yet concerned with the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis, the United Nations top official for the country told the Security Council he would push to extend and bolster the truce as speakers stressed the importance of opening roads around the city of Taïz and ensuring adequate funding of United Nations humanitarian programmes.

Urgent Multilateral Action Crucial for Tackling Growing Climate Emergency, Global Food Crisis, Secretary-General Tells Group of 20 Foreign Ministers Meeting

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Urgent Multilateral Action Crucial for Tackling Growing Climate Emergency, Global Food Crisis, Secretary-General Tells Group of 20 Foreign Ministers Meeting

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the Group of 20 (G20) Foreign Ministers on strengthening multilateralism, in Bali, Indonesia, today:

Education-related Sustainable Development Goals, Targets ‘Badly Off Track’, Deputy Secretary-General Tells High-level Political Forum

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Education-related Sustainable Development Goals, Targets ‘Badly Off Track’, Deputy Secretary-General Tells High-level Political Forum

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Economic and Social Council’s high-level political forum on sustainable development’s side event on education, in New York today:

Security Council Rejects Two Draft Resolutions Aimed at Renewing Cross-Border Humanitarian Operations in Syria’s North-West

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Security Council Rejects Two Draft Resolutions Aimed at Renewing Cross-Border Humanitarian Operations in Syria’s North-West

The Security Council today failed to reauthorize use of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing for the delivery of humanitarian aid into Syria, unable to pass either of two competing resolutions that would have kept open a critical lifeline to more than 4.1 million people in the country’s north-west, many of whom were forcibly displaced by violence during the 11-year war.

Achieving Gender Equality, Preserving Ocean Resources Vital to Creating World for All People, Speakers Stress, as High-Level Political Forum Continues

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Achieving Gender Equality, Preserving Ocean Resources Vital to Creating World for All People, Speakers Stress, as High-Level Political Forum Continues

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Calls to achieve gender equality and preserve the ocean’s vast marine resources dominated the high-level political forum on sustainable development today, as delegates explored the myriad policy, legal, financial and environmental reforms needed to jump-start a holistic transformation of their countries emerging from the COVID-19 crisis, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and create a world that supports all people.

Meeting on West Africa, Sahel Region, Speakers in Security Council Express Concern over Successive Coups, Call for Strengthening State Institutions

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Meeting on West Africa, Sahel Region, Speakers in Security Council Express Concern over Successive Coups, Call for Strengthening State Institutions

Despite positive political developments in West Africa and the Sahel — including recent elections in the Gambia and Senegal — the Security Council heard today that a series of coups d’état requires strengthened State institutions and a return to constitutional order to consolidate democratic gains, as members also highlighted proliferating terrorist activity and urged increased support for regional security arrangements to address persistent insecurity.

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