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Briefing by Eri Kaneko, Associate Spokesperson of the Secretary-General.

Security Council presidential statement urges Libya’s authorities to clarify constitutional basis for elections in 2021, as delegates recommend dialogue.

The Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh Annadif, said security challenges created by “terrorist acts in Liptako-Gourma and in the Lake Chad Basin as well as by crime along the coasts of the Gulf of Guinea must be addressed from a regional perspective because the risks of a joining between the threats from the sea and from the Sahel are real, and the main victims are the civilian populations.” UNIFEED

Intercommunal tensions, electoral transparency among challenges facing West Africa, Sahel area, Special Representative tells Security Council.

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

Complete eradication of Da’esh can only strengthen international peace, security, says delegate, as General Assembly wraps up debate on counter-terrorism strategy.

Press Conference by Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France and President of the Security Council for the month of July, on the Council’s programme of work for the month.

Security Council renews mandate of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force for six months, renews sanctions on Democratic Republic of the Congo, sets 5 November as election date to fill International Court of Justice vacancy, renews mandate of Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. Senior peacekeeping official warns Security Council of chronic divisive rhetoric, genocide denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Briefing reporters during the virtual launch of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems Report, the FAO’s Indigenous People’s Unit Chief, Yon Fernández de Larrinoa, said, “indigenous peoples food systems are disappearing at an alarming rate, resulting from displacement, violence, climate change, extractive industries, and intensive agricultural livestock,” and “unless new policies are put in place to support them, they will be a major loss for humankind in the next years.” UNIFEED

With the recognition of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and more than 34 million people already facing emergency levels of food insecurity, the world leaders urgently addressed the problem at the G7 summit last weekend and endorsed a Famine Prevention Compact. UNTV CH