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General Assembly adopts work programme, agenda for Seventy-Third Session, including items on responsibility to protect, situation in Ukraine at 3rd plenary meeting.

Press Encounter by Permanent Representatives of the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy. Statement of the current European members of the Security Council by Karel van Oosterom, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations, on the planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar.

Eight member States of the European Union called upon the Israeli authorities to “reconsider their decision to demolish Khan al-Ahmar,” adding that the members will not “give up on the negotiated two-state solution with Jerusalem as future capital for both States.” UNIFEED

Ahead of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly taking place next week in New York, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefed reporters on multiple global issues including the situations in Syria and Yemen, as well as the European migrant crisis. UNIFEED

Afghanistan’s pre-election decisions will have far-reaching implications for peace process, senior official tells Security Council at 8354th meeting.

A new UN report signalled that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people. FAO

An international mechanism is needed to collect evidence of crimes, including murder and torture, against Muslim Rohingya people in Myanmar, said the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today (Monday) in her first speech to the Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

Delegates dismayed that landmark treaty has not yet entered into force, as General Assembly observes International Day against Nuclear Tests at 112th plenary meeting.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

United Nations must be ‘bold and creative’ in using mediation to broker peace, Secretary-General tells Security Council at 8334th meeting.