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From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

As 2022 comes to an end, the conflict in Ukraine shows no signs of waning. UNIFEED / FILE

Despite ‘glimmer of hope’ in Armenia, Azerbaijan conflict, escalating tensions threaten to derail fragile progress, senior official tells Security Council.

Senior official condemns Russian Federation’s missile strikes against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, as Security Council holds emergency meeting on attacks.

Before departing from Ukraine, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Rafael Grossi told journalists in Kyiv that “the idea is that the shelling stops” around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and stressed that the establishment of a protection zone “is really urgent.” IAEA

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said “the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Defense are directing plans to hold sham referenda in the Ukrainian sovereign territory in an attempt to annex those territories.” UNIFEED

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Commission, said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “doubling on a failing strategy,” and stressed that “by the threat of using nuclear weapons, he's trying to intimidate Ukraine and all countries that support Ukraine.” UNIFEED

United States President Joseph Biden told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations Charter, none more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbour by force.” UNIFEED

Ahead of the High-Level Week of the General Assembly, the United Nations’ Secretary-General said his message to the world leaders gathering in New York is clear: “Lower the temperature now, don’t flood the world today, don’t drown it tomorrow.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General, António Guterres, said, “there is no effective solution” to the current global food crisis “without reintegrating Ukraine’s food production, as well as the food and fertilizer produced by Russia and Belarus, into world markets -- despite the war.” UNIFEED