"REGIONAL COOPERATION"

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the devastating Israeli airstrikes that killed World Central Kitchen personnel bring the number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196, is "unconscionable.” He reiterated that the Security Council resolution “must be implemented without delay.” UNIFEED

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said, “UNRWA only exist because there are Palestinian refugees. It is not a present to the Palestinians. It is an answer to their needs.” UNIFEED

Joint media stakeout on Myanmar organized by Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, Barbara Woodward, on behalf of Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Catriona Laing, attended the inauguration of Puntland’s recently reelected President Said Abdullahi Deni. UNSOM

The head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Abdou Abarry, told Security Council, “It is obvious that only a resolution of the crisis in Sudan will make it possible to address the humanitarian, economic, environmental and security situation in Chad and other countries, notably the Central African Republic.” UNIFEED

In the context of continued violence, upcoming elections and the withdrawal of the MONUSCO peacekeeping force from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the country said, “we are today at an important crossroads in the relationship between the United Nations and the DRC, but also an important moment for the country itself.” UNIFEED

(Continued) Open debate of the Security Council in connection with "Transnational organized crime, growing challenges and new threats" under the agenda item "Threats to international peace and security".

Open debate of the Security Council in connection with "Transnational organized crime, growing challenges and new threats" under the agenda item "Threats to international peace and security".

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.