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The first shipment of humanitarian food assistance under the Black Sea Grain Initiative is expected to berth shortly at Ukraine’s Yuzhny (Pivdennyi) port, said a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED

Military actions with even the smallest potential to jeopardize nuclear safety or security must stop immediately, said IAEA’s chief. “These actions could lead us to serious consequences,” he added. UNIFEED

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), along with the Norwegian Refugee Council, said that more than 755,000 people have been internally displaced in Somalia because of the severe drought this year. UNIFEED / FILE

Secretary-General António Guterres said that the unfolding situation in and around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine is “wholly unacceptable,” a UN spokesperson told reporters. UNIFEED / FILE

Frederick Kenney, interim Coordinator for the UN at the Joint Coordination Centre for the Black Sea Initiative, said, “We are off with a very good start.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia that it was “particularly timely to recognize that Mongolia has shown its commitment to non-proliferation and disarmament by declaring itself a nuclear weapons-free zone.” UNIC MONGOLIA

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

Updating reporters on the situation in Ukraine, a UN spokesperson said over the weekend humanitarians delivered 40 tonnes of critical relief supplies to people living in heavily impacted cities. On Ethiopia, the UN warned that the World Food Programme (WFP) will completely run out of food for refugees by October. UNIFEED

“Terrorism does not exist in a vacuum,” said Weixiong Chen, Acting Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. UNIFEED

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council that the “fragile” truce between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza “has allowed the resumption of essential movements of goods and people in and out of Gaza, including the delivery of humanitarian assistance and fuel for the Gaza Power Plant.” UNIFEED