"UN HEADQUARTERS"

A total of 184 countries voted in favour of a resolution to demand the end of the United States economic blockade on Cuba, for the 29th year in a row, with the United States and Israel voting against. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply alarmed” by the reports of civilian casualties as a result of an airstrike, which reportedly took place yesterday in Ethiopia’s Tigray Province, his spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

Aid workers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been the target of attacks 225 times in the first five months of 2021, and the current situation in the country “is eroding the social fabric and undermining efforts for peace and stability,” the top UN official in the CAR told the Security Council on Wednesday. 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 UN’s top diplomat in Afghanistan Deborah Lyons said more than 50 Afghanistan’s 370 districts have fallen to the Taliban since the beginning of May, most of which surround provincial capitals, “suggesting that the Taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capitals once foreign forces are fully withdrawn.” UNIFEED

“The UN Country Team today again called for the immediate release of thousands of women, children and men currently in detention” in Myanmar, “almost five months after the military seized control of the government on February 1st,” the UN spokesperson said on Monday. UNIFEED

Ten years after the independence of South Sudan, the support of the international community to the country “remains as important today as the world’s youngest nation strives for peace, security, and prosperity for its citizens,” the UN top official in South Sudan told the Security Council today. UNIFEED

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which calls on the Myanmar armed forces to immediately stop all violence against peaceful demonstrators and civilians and calls on countries to prevent the flow of arms into the country. UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener urged the Security Council to “speak in unity” as half the population is expected to live under the poverty line by next year in the situation continues. UNIFEED

António Guterres was on Friday re-appointed to a second term as UN Secretary-General, pledging as his priority, to continue helping the world chart a course out of the COVID-19 pandemic. UNIFEED