"MILITARY ACTIVITY"

On the commencement of the control release of water from Fukushima, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said, “the independent sampling from the agency has been confirming that the levels of Tritium are well below the operational agreed standards.” IAEA

Comments to the media by Ferit Hoxha, Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations, on behalf of France, Japan, Malta, United Kingdom, and United States on Georgia.

The UN Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Geir O. Pedersen will brief the Security Council. 

UN senior official Khaled Khiari told Security Council that the launch of Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile on 12 July by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) represents a “serious risk to international civil aviation and maritime traffic.” UNIFEED

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said, “It is almost impossible to imagine that the people of Myanmar can endure more suffering. Yet the country continues its deadly freefall into even deeper violence and heartbreak.” UNTV CH

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, warned that the current escalation in the occupied West Bank “is very dangerous” and “all must ensure that the civilian population is protected.” UNIFEED

The United Nations top political affairs official said, “it is the right of a sovereign state to launch a satellite and to benefit from space activities. However, Council resolutions expressly prohibit the DPRK from conducting any launches using ballistic missile technology.” UNIFEED

Warning the Security Council that the situation at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant “continues to be extremely fragile and dangerous”, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, listed five principles to help prevent a nuclear accident. UNIFEED

The Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg told the Security Council, “I believe we have not seen such a serious opportunity for making progress towards ending the conflict in eight years. But the tide could still turn unless the parties take bolder steps toward peace.” UNIFEED

Addressing a reporter about his visit to Zaporizhzhya, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said, “wittingly or unwittingly, reactors were hit.” IAEA