"PEACE PROCESS"

With merely 13 months remaining until its first post-independence elections in South Sudan, UNMISS and partners hosted a political parties' forum on federalism to galvanize momentum in ongoing peace processes. UMNISS

China’s Ambassador Zhang Jun said the Security Council has to send “a very strong message” to relevant parties in the Middle East crisis “to cease fire, to really to abide by international law, and the international humanitarian law.” UNIFEED

A UN spokesperson said, “the Secretary-General is appalled over the escalating violence in Gaza, including the killing of Palestinians, including women and children, in Israeli airstrikes in residential areas of the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp, and those attacks took place yesterday and today.” UNIFEED

The Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Valentine Rugwabiza, called for “a remobilization of all stakeholders at the national, sub-regional and regional levels for a holistic implementation of the Political Peace and Reconciliation Agreement.” UNIFEED / FILE

(Resumed) Security Council open debate in connection with "Women's participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice" under the agenda item "Women and peace and security".

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that “where wars rage, women suffer,” and said, “twenty-three years after this Council adopted resolution 1325, women’s participation should be a default, not an afterthought. But that is not the case.” UNIFEED

(Resumed) Women's participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice.

Security Council open debate in connection with "Women's participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice" under the agenda item "Women and peace and security".

League of Arab States members called for an immediate ceasefire, an immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza, and a return to a peace process. UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned the Security Council today that “the situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour” and “the war in Gaza is raging and risks spiraling throughout the region.” UNIFEED