"WESTERN SAHARA"

General Assembly adopts resolution calling for stronger action against new, emerging threats, as speakers assess progress in advancing global counter-terrorism strategy.

Citing COVID-19’s global impact on peace, speakers say Security Council must overcome divisions, address current realities, as General Assembly considers its 2020 report. People living with HIV must be at heart of global efforts to stamp out epidemic by 2030, governments stress, as General Assembly high-level meeting continues.

Citing COVID-19’s global impact on peace, speakers say Security Council must overcome divisions, address current realities, as General Assembly considers its 2020 report.

Citing COVID-19’s global impact on peace, speakers say Security Council must overcome divisions, address current realities, as General Assembly considers its 2020 report. People living with HIV must be at heart of global efforts to stamp out epidemic by 2030, governments stress, as General Assembly high-level meeting continues.

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

Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said that “in addition to overcoming the risk of paralysis resulting from COVID-19” peacekeeping missions, “have also had to face very serious and unpredicted events in many of our mission settings.” UNIFEED

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) launched a USD 100 million appeal Wednesday to drive its 2021 strategic plan for refugee protection in African countries en route to the Mediterranean, citing the deaths of no less than 1,064 people in the Central and Western Mediterranean in 2020 alone. UNHCR

Speaking to reporters marking the end of Germany’s two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, German Ambassador Christof Heusgen said, “we believe that we belong into the Security Council also as permanent member.” UNIFEED

Informal comments to the media (in his national capacity) by Ambassador Jerry Matthews Matjila, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations and President of the Security Council in December 2020 on the situation in Western Sahara.

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