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The top UN disarmament official urged the Syrian Arab Republic “to cooperate fully with the OPCW Technical Secretariat” and to declare “the exact types and quantities of chemical agents produced and or weaponized” at a site found to have been used for the production of chemical weapons despite the Syrian authorities declaring otherwise. UNIFEED

General Assembly adopts seven resolutions, including texts on Middle East, citing illegality of annexing Occupied Palestinian Territory.

UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Khawla Matar informed the Security Council that plans are being finalized for the fourth session of the Constitutional Committee Small Body to convene from 30 November to 4 December in Geneva. UNIFEED

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock told the Security Council failure to extend the cross-border authorization into Syria “would sever the UN operation currently underway” in the country’s northwest and stressed that it would “cause suffering and death.” UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told the Security Council, “I strongly believe that Syria needs a ceasefire arrangement that results in sustained calm and is nationwide in scope – one that does not see new assaults across lines of contact, and enables Syrians to access equipment and resources necessary to combat COVID-19.” UNIFEED

In her remarks to a Security Council meeting in emergency session on Syria following the death on the battlefield of dozens of Turkish troops, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary Dicarlo said that civilians living in daily terror from the guns, shells and mortar rounds across Syria, were “not asking for a pause in the fighting. They are asking for an end to the killing.” UNIFEED

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said recent strikes on makeshift camps in Idlib are “both reprehensible and morally repugnant” adding that these acts “clearly demonstrate the terrifying daily conditions of those living through this nightmare.” UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said, “We are witnessing the humanitarian catastrophe that the Secretary-General has warned of,” adding that the fighting in the north-west of the country was causing “totally unacceptable human suffering -- and endangering international peace and security. And yet it can -- and therefore must -- stop now.” UNIFEED

The Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Khawla Matar, told the Security Council that Special Envoy Geir Pedersen had met today in Damascus with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and had agreed “on the importance of strict observance of the agreed Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure” and “is working to narrow the differences and hopes to be in a position to convene the Constitutional Committee shortly.” UNIFEED

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock expressed his alarm about the dire humanitarian situation in northwest Syria adding that people “feel totally abandoned by the world.” UNIFEED