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As South Sudan grapples with multiple challenges, Nicholas Haysom, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of UNMISS, urged political leaders to galvanize momentum in peace processes so that free, fair, and credible elections can be held on time. UNMISS

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

South Sudan has seen an influx in people arriving in the country to escape conflict in Sudan. At least 46,000 South Sudanese have gone back home to the country they once fled. UNHCR and partners are providing new arrivals with food, water, blankets, mats and buckets, as well as emergency medical treatment. UNHCR

Noon briefing by Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

A Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres said peacekeepers from the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had “responded to alerts of the presence of CODECO members in several villages of Djugu territory in Ituri province,” immediately deploying to the area and “prompting the assailants to flee the scene.” UNIFEED

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan held interactive workshops in the country to talk about constitution-making and election processes. UNMISS

General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said it was time “to get serious about debt relief in Middle-income countries, which host the majority of the extreme poor in the world,’ and called for the international community “to go beyond GDP as the primary measure of development.” UNIFEED

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, told the Security Council that “full compliance with human rights is the best antidote to the inequalities, unaddressed grievances and exclusion which are often at the root of instability and conflict.” UNIFEED

The Security Council open debate under the agenda item "Peacebuilding and sustaining peace" is intended to take stock of, review and strengthen the approaches of the Security Council towards building trust to foster sustainable peace in the light of current and emerging threats.

The Security Council open debate under the agenda item "Peacebuilding and sustaining peace" is intended to take stock of, review and strengthen the approaches of the Security Council towards building trust to foster sustainable peace in the light of current and emerging threats.