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Security Council presidential statement expresses intention to promote closer ties with League of Arab States at 8548th meeting.

Security Council adopts first-ever resolution on persons reported missing during armed conflict, as speakers call for greater political will to address problem at 8543rd meeting.

General Assembly elects by acclamation Nigeria’s permanent representative as President of seventy-fourth session, also chooses 20 Vice-Presidents at 87th plenary.

Marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the Secretary-General António Guterres laid a wreath to honour the brave women and men who gave their lives to protect others and to give war-torn countries a chance for peace and hope. UNIFEED / UNIC DAR ES SALAAM

Security Council members express alarm over recent escalation of violence in Gaza and funding shortfall affecting agency for Palestine refugees, at 8532nd meeting.

Syrian refugee Ibrahim started running when he was ten. After fleeing violence from his country, he continued racing in Lebanon at the highest level, and has come third in the 2018 Beirut Marathon. UNHCR

Informal comments to the media by Dian Triansyah Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations & president of the Security Council for the Month of May, on the Situation in Lebanon.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called for a thorough, effective, and independent investigation into the death of 44-year-old Hassan Toufic Dika, during detention in Lebanon. OHCHR / UNTV CH

Fred Warmbier, the father of Otto Warmbier, an American college student imprisoned in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and who was returned to the United States in a vegetative state and later died, said, “every member” of the DPRK Leader Kim Jong-un’s “regime, is a thug, he is a criminal, and he is a murderer.” UNIFEED

Civil society speakers paint grim picture of deepening crisis in occupied Palestinian territory, as Security Council takes Up Middle East situation at 8517th meeting.