"PEACE CONSOLIDATION"

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

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that the drawdown of UN peacekeeping missions is “a moment of heightened risk,” but stressed that “their missions are never intended to be permanent." UNIFEED

Issuing presidential statement, Security Council expresses grave concern over dire situation in West Africa, Sahel, Gulf of Guinea.

More than 700 health care workers and patients have died since December 2017 and more than 2,000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities, according to a three- year analysis by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), released today. UNTV CH

General Assembly members, shocked over killing of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse, pay tribute to late leader. Organ also adopts decision on work methods for General Debate.

Colombian Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez De Rincón said it was “important to have clarity about what happened” in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and “why there are some former members of the Colombian Armed Forces” involved in the operation. UNIFEED

The arbitrary detention, “often under dire conditions, of thousands of migrants and refugees” in Libya, “is a tragic phenomenon that needs to end,” the UN chief said in a video message to the second Berlin conference on Libya, adding that he continues "to call for the immediate release of all refugees and migrants in Libya.” UNIFEED

The Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ján Kubiš, told the Security Council that “full accountability" for crimes committed during the Libyan conflict "is the only way to ensure justice and right-based reconciliation in Libya.” UNIFEED

Special Envoy updates Security Council on new strategy for consolidating peace, preventing conflict in Great Lakes region.

In a video message, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “Turkey's actions undermine international law and threaten the security and stability of the broader region of the Eastern Mediterranean and of all EU member states.” UNIFEED