"NATURAL RESOURCES"

Informal comments to the media by Raychelle Omamo, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Kenya, on the situation in the Great Lakes region.

UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region Huang Xia highlighted to the Security Council the necessity to “sustainably build on these accomplishments while firmly addressing the challenges that persist” in the region. UNIFEED

Security Council presidential statement on Great Lakes urges concerted efforts against armed groups’ illicit funding from pillaged natural resources.

Continued attacks by illegal armed groups in Central African Republic thwarting progress towards implementing peace agreement, Special Representative tells Security Council.

The world faces an exponential increase in hunger fuelled by the climate crisis if urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks and stresses is ignored, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned ahead of World Food Day. WFP

Martin Kimani, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN and President of the Security Council in October 2021, briefs the press on the programme of work for the month of October.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faysal Al Mekdad warned “the few seeking secession” in the northeast against “harboring such illusions that are rejected by the Syrian people because by pursuing such ends, they are placing themselves in the category of those plotting against Syria's unity, both in land and people; and they will be dealt with accordingly.” UNIFEED

Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Demeke Mekonnen underscored his government’s “unreserved commitment” for the provision of humanitarian assistance and facilitate the operation of its humanitarian partners that adhere to the principles of neutrality, independence and humanity and the laws of the country, adding that “apart from this, no excuse will justify any attempt to intervene in our internal affairs.” UNIFEED

Speaking at the opening of the UN Food Systems Summit, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that we must build a world where healthy and nutritious food is available and affordable for everyone, everywhere. UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that the effects of climate change “are particularly profound when they overlap with fragility and past or current conflicts,” and are “complicating efforts to prevent conflict and to sustain peace.” UNIFEED