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Security Council calls emergency special session of General Assembly on Ukraine crisis, adopting resolution 2623 (2022) by 11 votes in favour, 1 against, 3 abstentions.

The top United Nations official in Libya echoed the call from a conference co-chaired by Libya, France, Germany, Italy and the United Nations in Paris on 12 November, for all Libyan stakeholders and candidates “to respect their commitments towards holding elections” slated for 24 December. UNIFEED

President of the France, Emmanuel Macron, and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, today broke ground for the WHO Academy’s campus in the French city of Lyon. WHO

The people of Beirut need to see accountability for the deepening crisis they have faced after the devastating port blasts in the Lebanese capital 12 months ago, the UN’s top rights official said Tuesday. UNTV CH

The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium comprising Biovac, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish its first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub. WHO

The international community should work together “towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response” to build a more robust global health architecture that will protect future generations, world leaders said in a commentary published today in several newspapers around the world. WHO

Climate change ‘biggest threat modern humans have ever faced’, world renowned naturalist tells Security Council, calls for greater global cooperation.

World-renowned natural historian Sir David Attenborough told the Security Council the world is “perilously close to tipping points that once past will send global temperatures spiralling catastrophically higher,” and said, “If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security." UNIFEED

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

“The main objective of the United Nations in 2021 is to build a true global coalition for carbon neutrality,” the UN secretary-General said at the One Planet Summit for Biodiversity on Monday. GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE