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With the 2 October deadline for another extension of the peace truce in Yemen quickly approaching, the UN Secretary-General strongly urged the parties not only to renew but also to expand the truce’s terms and duration, said a UN Spokesperson. UNIFEED

“Without peace we will not achieve Zero Hunger and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said at the Agriculture Ministers Meeting of the G20 held this week in Bali, Indonesia. FAO

Secretary-General António Guterres said any decision by the Russian Federation to proceed with the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine “would have no legal value and deserves to be condemned.” UNIFEED

Press conference by António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General on the annexation of Ukrainian territory.

According to the UN Refugee agency, over 1 million Somalis have been displaced by a devastating drought that has destroyed livelihoods in the Horn of Africa, leaving families hungry. UNHCR

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland said, “Israelis and Palestinians must determine how they envision the future. Negotiations can no longer be pushed off indefinitely. The current course is leading us towards a perpetual state of violence and conflict.” UNIFEED

Having just returned to Juba after briefing the UN Security Council in New York on the progress being made in South Sudan, the UNMISS Special Representative of the Secretary General spoke to the media in the capital, Juba. UNMISS

Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary Anne DiCarlo told the Security Council that the referenda taking place in occupied Ukrainian territories are being held “during active armed conflict in areas under Russian control outside Ukraine's legal and constitutional framework” and “cannot be called a genuine expression of the popular will.” UNIFEED

The ten elected members and five incoming members of the Security Council called on the Taliban to immediately reverse the decision to exclude girls from secondary education in Afghanistan. UNIFEED

So-called referenda during armed conflict in Ukraine ‘illegal’, not expression of popular will, United Nations political affairs chief tells Security Council.