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At a press conference in New York today, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said his Government could “only hope sanity will prevail in Colombia”, that the deadline for the entry of humanitarian aid would remain “a big show, and that they don’t try to open the doors to a military intervention” in Venezuela. UNIFEED

World Food Programme (WFP) urgently needs USD 570 million to feed twelve million of the most vulnerable and food insecure Yemenis for the next six months. Some twenty million Yemenis – or 70 percent of the population – would be severely food insecure without humanitarian food aid. WFP

UN Special Envoy for education Gordon Brown appealed for urgent new funding for lost generations of over 30 million displaced and refugee young people. UNIFEED

The Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, told the Security Council that the agreement reached in December of last year by the warring parties in Stockholm was “a breakthrough” and that “perhaps for one day at least, we can be heartened rather than dismayed by challenges.” UNIFEED

The UN refugee Agency (UNHCR) said it took part last week in one of the largest and most complex humanitarian missions carried out in the eight years of the Syrian conflict. UNHCR

The recent escalation of hostilities in Idlib and nearby areas in northwestern Syria has left some one million people in an extremely vulnerable situation, the UN human rights agency (OHCHR) told journalists on Tuesday. UNTV CH

The biggest UN humanitarian convoy yet to operate inside Syria has successfully distributed aid to 40,000 desperate people in a hard-to-access desert camp at Rukban, near the country’s southern border with Jordan, the organization announced on Friday. UNTV CH

United Nations aid agencies with their national and international humanitarian partners launched today the 2019 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. The appeal seeks to raise US$ 920 million to meet the massive needs of more than 900,000 refugees from Myanmar and over 330,000 vulnerable Bangladesh's host communities. UNTV CH

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza announced the formation of a new group at the United Nations to defend the “principles of international law” and the rights of peoples to “live in peace, without interference, without interventions, without the threat of the use of force.” UNIFEED

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