"CONFLICT SITUATION"

Press Conference by T. S. Tirumurti, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations and President of the Security Council, on the programme of Work for the month of August.

Aid flights have resumed to Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region after a month-long break linked to the eight-month conflict there, with the first airplane transporting “thirty aid workers from multiple humanitarian organisations who are working to deliver urgently needed assistance to conflict-affected communities across Tigray,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. UNTV CH

UN Deputy-Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the Security Council the “hurricane of humanitarian crises” around the world is compounded by a “relentless wave of attacks on humanitarian and medical workers, and the imposition of ever narrower constraints on humanitarian space.” UNIFEED

Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard said, “we must make the utmost effort in conflict situations- but it is also true that humanitarian space and concerns are also linked to inequities” as well as to “the impact of sanctions imposed on countries creating crisis-like humanitarian situations, with a lot of human suffering.” UNIFEED

UN humanitarians appealed on Tuesday for better access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, after the first aid trucks in days to reach the local capital, Mekelle, encountered multiple, rigorous checks which delayed their arrival significantly. UNTV CH

The Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to extend the UN cross-border aid operation in northwest Syria for another 12 months, providing a lifeline for more than 3.4 million people in need, including some one million children. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “deeply concerned” with the present situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray adding that the “destruction of civilian infrastructure is totally unacceptable.” PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT HANDOUT

United Nations spokesperson Eri Kaneko expressed concern about reports of a disruption of the water supply from Alouk water station to Al-Haskakeh in Syria, affecting up to one million people in the region. UNIFEED

Russian ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said the cross-border humanitarian operation in Syria is “outdated” and “eventually it will be closed.” UNIFEED

Presenting his report on children and armed conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on the Security Council and all countries to “strongly support the protection of children in all ways at all times,” and stressed that there is “no place for children in conflict, and we must not allow conflict to trample on the rights of children.” UNIFEED