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Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 77th Session of the General Assembly.

Briefing the Security Council on the issue of Western weapons supplies to Ukraine, the Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Adedeji Ebo, said, “the provision of military assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine has continued,” while reportedly there have also been weapons transfers “to the Russian armed forces for use in Ukraine.” UNIFEED

After receiving the Carlos V European Award, Secretary-General António Guterres urged “to heal division, prevent escalation and listen to grievances,” and said, “Instead of bullets, we need diplomatic arsenals.” COURTESY CANAL EXTREMADURA

Informal comments to the media by Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union, on behalf of the Ambassadors of EU Member States​ on Effective multilateralism through the defence of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Informal comments to the media by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative of the United States to the United Nations; Ambassador Bob Rae, Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations; Ambassador Martin Gallagher, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Ireland; and Elizabeth Whelan, on the situation in Ukraine ahead of the Security Council meeting on Effective multilateralism through the defence of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Speaking at a Security Council meeting presided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in violation of the United Nations Charter and international law, is causing massive suffering and devastation to the country and its people, and adding to the global economic dislocation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.” UNIFEED

Under the agenda: "Maintenance of International Peace and Security".

The UN senior official for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Khaled Khiari, warned that “the lack of unity and action in the Security Council does little to slow the negative trajectory on the Korean Peninsula” and “the DPRK is unconstrained, and other parties are compelled to focus on military deterrence.” UNIFEED

The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, told the Security Council that “the risk of a nuclear weapon being used is currently higher than at any time since the depth of the cold war,” and the war in Ukraine “represents the most acute example of that risk.” UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, “The Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine has thrown us back to an archaic era. An era when a neighboring country’s territory could be attacked and taken, at will, as one’s own. When the identity and history of communities could be denied, and reality rewritten.” UNTV CH