"EMERGENCY RELIEF"

The United Nations top humanitarian official said it was “vital for global food security” that the Black Sea Grain Initiative, and the parallel Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat on the facilitation of Russian food and fertilizer exports continue, “and should be fully implemented.” UNIFEED

The Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, welcomed “intense diplomatic efforts” to bring the conflict in Yemen to an end and called on all sides “to allow the time and space needed for the discussions to bear fruit.” UNIFEED

UN top officials informed the Security Council about the “tragic reality” in Syria after an earthquake in early February worsened the humanitarian crisis. UNIFEED

The UN's Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths appealed for USD 4.3 billion to assist 17.3 million of Yemen’s most vulnerable people, after years of grinding war and economic hardship. UNTV CH

The United Nations launched a one billion US dollar appeal for Türkiye to assist more than five million people affected by the cataclysmic earthquakes last week, the largest to hit the country in a century. UNIFEED

Almost a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UN appealed today for USD 5.6 billion to help millions of people affected inside the war-torn country and beyond. UNTV CH

Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths traveled to Aleppo at the end of a three-day visit to areas of Türkiye and Syria hit by the 6 February earthquake. OCHA

Following the recent earthquakes that devastated the Türkiye-Syria border region, UN convoys with humanitarian supplies to north-west Syria have resumed and are scaling back up, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said today during a visit to the UN transshipment hub and the Bab al-Hawa border crossing. OCHA

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, met today in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, families affected by the earthquake and listened to their stories of shock and devastation. OCHA

Reading the joint statement by Brazil and Switzerland, co-penholders on the Syria humanitarian file, Ambassador Baeriswyl said, “The earthquake, which struck southern Türkiye, directly affecting northern Syria on Monday, 6th February, is a heartbreaking tragedy amid Syria’s humanitarian crisis.” UNIFEED