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Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned about the violence witnessed in Beirut today and called on all concerned to “immediately cease acts of violence and refrain from any provocative actions or inflammatory rhetoric,” according to a spokesperson. UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Youth leaders took centre stage in the fight to feed the world by raising awareness, inspiring action and identifying solutions at the World Food Forum, a youth-led movement whose first flagship event ended on Tuesday. FAO

Delegates urge swift, permanent end to existing atomic bombs, as General Assembly marks International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Delegates urge swift, permanent end to existing atomic bombs, as General Assembly marks International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said his country " has known its hardest times” over the past two years “whereas successive crises – some inherited and ramified and some urgent - exploded simultaneously, affecting all sectors.” UNIFEED

Michel Aoun, President of the Lebanese Republic, addresses the general debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 21-27 September 2021).

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said Lebanon risks losing the health gains it made over the last decade and stressed that unless urgent action is taken, “Afghanistan faces an imminent humanitarian catastrophe.” WHO

"We need the full support of the Arab League" in efforts to find "a political solution in both Syria and Yemen," as well as in dealing with other crisis in Middle East, the Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told reporters before chairing an informal interactive dialogue between the UN Security Council and the League of Arab States. UNIFEED