"PEACE AND SECURITY"

Briefing the Security Council on the situation in Idlib, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary Di Carlo, said, “we are at yet another juncture in the Syrian conflict where civilians are paying the price for a never-ending war.” UNIFEED

Experts urge Security Council support for efforts to make G5 Sahel Joint Force fully operational amid rising terrorist attacks, intercommunal violence at 8526th meeting.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa Bintou Keita called upon the Members of the G5-Sahel to “most urgently accelerate the full operationalization of the Joint Force so that it can finally reach its full operational capability.” UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths said after Ansar Allah’s military forces left three Yemeni ports, “we have seen the first concrete step” towards the implementation of the Stockholm agreement. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General “is following with growing concern recent incidents and hardening rhetoric in the Gulf region” and also “condemns the recent attacks on commercial vessels of the coast of United Arab Emirates,” the UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York on Wednesday. UNIFEED

The Security Council adopted a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) for another six months. UNIFEED

In a statement read by a UN spokesperson, the Chairperson of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) in Yemen, Lieutenant General Michael Lollesgaard, welcomed the handing over of the ports of Hudaydah, Salif and Ras Issa. UNIFEED

During his trip to South Sudan, the UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix met with women’s group to discuss women’s role in the implementation of the peace agreement. UNMISS

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.