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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today it has been laying the groundwork for the rapid, safe and efficient delivery of the eventual COVID-19 vaccine by stockpiling syringes and other necessary equipment, in anticipation of delivering 1 billion syringes to support vaccination efforts in 2021.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has put two reports online, one detailing violations in eastern Ukraine and Crimea, and the other warning that accountability for violations committed in the context of demonstrations remains elusive, despite promising steps by the Government of Iraq.

The eleventh United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names and the thirtieth session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names concluded on 17 and 18 August, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

NEW YORK, 7 August (Department of Political Affairs) — The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) convenes its thirtieth session on the 7 and 18 August, as well as the eleventh United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (UNCSGN) from 8 to 17 August, to celebrate their fiftieth-year anniversary of conferences at Headquarters.

The twenty-ninth Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names concluded on 29 April at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok.

The twenty-ninth session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names will convene from 25 to 29 April, at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Conference Centre in Bangkok.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Statistics Day, to be observed on 20 October:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as delivered, at the opening of the forty-sixth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, in New York today: