"REGIONAL COOPERATION"

Comments to the media by Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, on the situation in the Country.

The Management Segment of ECOSOC will take place on 25-26 July 2023. The programme of the Management Segment meetings is structured around action that ECOSOC is expected to take on economic, social, environmental, health and related matters, including by recommendation of its subsidiary and related bodies.

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

Election of members of the Economic and Social Council - Item 116 (b).

UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo said, “It is heartening that the relationship between the United Nations and the League of Arab States remains robust.” UNIFEED

Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security: League of Arab States

Secretary-General António Guterres said armed groups – both local and foreign – must lay down their arms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and efforts must be redoubled to advance a lasting, sustainable peace in the region. UNIFEED

The United Nations top official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said, “the intensification” of the conflict in the Eastern DRC, “continues to inflict untold suffering on civilians and to worsen a humanitarian situation, which is increasingly catastrophic.” UNIFEED

A high-level debate on the agenda item "Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts" presided by the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi.

On the margins of the United Nations 2023 Water conference an African Union (AU) official said, “the strategic importance” of water “places it in the frontline of national interest,” and can be “a veritable tool for both economic growth and stability.” UNIFEED