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General Assembly adopts 4 resolutions promoting culture of peace, multilateralism, fills vacancies in subsidiary bodies at 51st plenary meeting.

Following a moment of silence for victims of genocide, Secretary-General António Guterres said “seventy years after the Genocide Convention was adopted, people are still being killed, raped, their homes torched, their lands confiscated, just because of who they are.” UNIFEED

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

UNHCR has launched a broad campaign to distribute clean-burning gas stoves and cylinders to Rohingya refugees, to provide safe means for families to cook and to stem deforestation in the surrounding forests in Bangladesh. UNHCR

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

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

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed confirmation from the Bangladesh authorities that Rohingya refugees will not be returned to Myanmar against their will, amid reported ongoing rights violations there. UNTV CH

Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), said the world needs to “renew, revitalize” its efforts to end statelessness which he described as an “entirely human-made problem.” UNHCR

United Nations Spokesperson Farhan Haq read a statement from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who said his agency supports “the voluntary and sustainable repatriation of Rohingya refugees in safety and in dignity to their places of origin or choice and will work with all parties towards this goal.” UNIFEED

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