"CONFLICT SITUATION"

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told reporters that the discussion today which concluded a week-long session of the Constitutional Committee was a “big disappointment.” UNTV CH

A UN spokesperson described the situation in northern Ethiopia as “unpredictable and volatile,” adding that humanitarians are “alarmed by the intensification of conflict.” UNIFEED

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said another shameful milestone has been reached in the conflict in Yemen with 10,000 children killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015. UNTV CH

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen described the first meeting between the two Co-chairs of the Small Body of the Syrian Constitutional Committee as “serious and frank” and hoped to continue meetings over the next week in the “same spirit.” UNTV CH

Following meetings with the Government of Yemen in Riyadh and Aden, and with Ansar Allah in Muscat, the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, told the Security Council that “the gap in trust between warring parties is wide and growing.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that “without including a wide range of diverse voices at every step” of the peacebuilding process, “any peace will be short-lived.” UNIFEED

Informal comments to the media by Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya, and Security Council President for the month of October, in his national capacity, on "Peacebuilding and sustaining peace: Diversity, statebuilding and the search for peace", Somalia, Ethiopia and the Pandora Papers; following the 8877th meeting of the UN Security Council.

Addressing root causes of conflict vital for sustaining peace as COVID-19 reverses peacebuilding gains, facilitates intolerance, speakers warn Security Council.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet updated the Human Rights Council on the extent of conflict-related deaths in the Syrian Arab Republic, presenting a list of 350,209 identified individuals killed in the conflict in Syria between March 2011 to March 2021.OHCHR

The future for Syria’s people is “increasingly bleak”, UN-appointed rights experts said, highlighting escalating conflict in several areas of the war-ravaged country, a return to siege tactics and popular demonstrations linked to the plummeting economy. UNTV CH