Kicking off for peace & development! Our 🇲🇾 team is thrilled to participate in the Inaugural UN NY-Based Missions Games #football ⚽ tournament, celebrating the Int Day of Sport for Development and Peace. #MalaysiaattheUN

➡️675 million people still lack electricity access

➡️2.3 billion people rely on harmful fuels for cooking

More collaborative and inclusive means must be explored to ensure affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for all.

I call upon you to help us address these challenges…

The English version of my Le Monde op-ed on #Sudan , via UN News: news.un.org/en/content/fam…

Photo by Ezra Stoller...
United Nations Building, New York City...1950
#architecture #arquitectura #EzraStoller

We have just confirmed that the U.N. Secretary General will brief the Security Council on the Iranian strikes against Israel starting at 10pmCAT/4pmEST

#sabcnews

Two things can simultaneously be true:

1. Bombing State A’s embassy in State B is a violation of B’s territorial integrity, & of the inviolability of A’s diplomatic premises = violation of int’l law!

2. Retaliatory attack is not legitimate use of force (not self defence)!✌🏿

#UNSCMTPres

Secretary-General António Guterres is deeply concerned by the escalation in tensions between armed actors in El Fasher, North Darfur - an area already on the brink of famine.

Full statement: un.org/sg/en/content/…

📸Family picture from today's A3+ retreat on 'Enhancing the #A3Plus : an innovative tool for sustained advocacy w/in the #UNSC '.
A great opportunity for interaction bw previous & current A3+ & other stakeholders on amplifying #Africa 's voice on Int #Peace & #Security .
#Agenda2063

Today, H.E Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the UN, participated in the A3+(🇩🇿🇲🇿🇸🇱🇬🇾) retreat on 'Enhancing the A3 Plus: an innovative tool for sustained advocacy within the UNSC'.

#Haiti : António Guterres welcomes the publication of the decree formally establishing the Transitional Presidential Council and urges all Haitian stakeholders to continue making progress in putting in place transitional governance arrangements. un.org/sg/en/content/… BINUH

Following a letter received from Israel at the UN ,the Maltese Presidency of the #UNSC has scheduled an open emergency meeting of the Council tomorrow at 4pm under the agenda item “The situation in the Middle East” to consider the drone & missile attack by #Iran on #Israel Affarijiet Barranin

Barring any unexpected changes, #Iran and #Israel will both participate in the UNSC meeting tmrw.

4 p.m. timing confirmed with UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs USG Rosemary A. DiCarlo to brief. #UNSC #Israel #Iran #MiddleEast

Iran's Mission to the UN says Iran's action was in response to Israel's aggression against its diplomatic premises in Damascus & that the 'matter can be deemed concluded', while warning that Iran's 'response will be considerably more severe' to any further 'mistake' by Israel.

Iran’s invocation of Article 51 of the UN Charter occurred following a 13-day period marked by the Security Council’s inaction and silence, coupled with its failure to condemn the Israeli regime’s aggressions. Certain countries’ precipitous condemnation of Iran’s exercise of its…

All six reactor units of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant are now in cold shutdown for the first time since late 2022 after unit 4 reached this operational state early today, Rafael MarianoGrossi said. bit.ly/3TPlMHK

This Punch cartoon by L.G. Illingworth seems timely on the day of the latest Veto Initiative meeting in the GA.
A bit discouraging to see the veto was an issue already in 1948🙄
Also rather odd to see the UN depicted as a camel🤔

.Rafael MarianoGrossi today called for maximum military restraint and full observance of the five concrete principles for protecting Ukraine’s ZNPP, days after a series of drone attacks had “significantly increased” the risk of a nuclear accident at the site. bit.ly/4cVRU5o

#Malta , chair of #UNSC new membership cttee, elaborates on #Palestine statehood quest: will circulate draft report on the 'no consensus' mtg results.
Unlikely the cttee will advise that a vote be held on a draft text in SecCouncil
But a SecCouncil member can table a draft rez…