"VOLODYMYR YELCHENKO"

Security Council must expand, adapt to current realities or risk losing legitimacy, delegates tell General Assembly amid proposals for reform at 33rd and 34th plenary meetings.

General Assembly pays tribute to Fiftieth Session President Diogo Freitas Do Amaral, praising statesman as pillar of democracy in Portugal at 16th plenary meeting.

Secretary-General deplores reversals in disarmament efforts, as General Assembly commemorates International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

General Assembly adopts work programme, agenda for Seventy-Fourth session, retaining items on responsibility to protect, situation in Ukraine at 2nd plenary meeting.

General Assembly adopts resolutions on supporting new partnership for Africa’s development, promoting durable peace on continent at 105th plenary meeting.

Complete ‘unfinished business’ of protecting female sexual, reproductive health Rights, speakers urge as anniversary meeting for Population Conference ends at 99th resumed plenary meeting.

At the request of Russia, the UN Security Council met today to discuss a new law entering in force in Ukraine, instating the Ukrainian language as the sole official language in the country, requiring that it be used in the public sector. UNIFEED

General Assembly adopts text on status of Georgia’s refugees, internally displaced persons, calls upon participants in Geneva discussions to intensify efforts at 88th plenary meeting.

Addressing the Security Council, Russian Ambassador Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya said, “Russia is not imposing citizenship upon people in Donbas, but providing an opportunity to freely and on their own, in an orderly fashion, to apply for that in the relevant authorities in the territory.” UNIFEED

Security in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov Region: The event was hosted by the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations. Briefing by Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations.