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At a press conference in New York today, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said his Government could “only hope sanity will prevail in Colombia”, that the deadline for the entry of humanitarian aid would remain “a big show, and that they don’t try to open the doors to a military intervention” in Venezuela. UNIFEED

A UN spokesperson told reporters in New York that nearly seven million people in South Sudan face “acute food insecurity” this year. UNIFEED

World Food Programme (WFP) urgently needs USD 570 million to feed twelve million of the most vulnerable and food insecure Yemenis for the next six months. Some twenty million Yemenis – or 70 percent of the population – would be severely food insecure without humanitarian food aid. WFP

Following a meeting with the partners of the Central African Republic at the UN Headquarters on Friday, the UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said “we have a momentum” to rally around the implementation of the peace agreement. UNIFEED

United Nations Human Rights office is “concerned by the news from Egypt” where fifteen people have been executed so far this month. UNTV CH

South Sudan’s Defense Minister Kuol Mayang Juuk has announced that the government will integrate an Action Plan on grave violations against children into the army training curriculum. UNMISS

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met today with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York. UNIFEED

At a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), UN chief Antonio Guterres said it was “time to show people that multilateralism can deliver” adding that we needed to show “that politics is a noble undertaking and not merely the pursuit of power.” UNIFEED

The United Nations (UN) expressed its concern about the food shortages expected in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). UNIFEED

The outgoing Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic Parfait Onanga-Anyanga briefed today the Security Council and said the peace agreement recently signed between the Government and the armed groups could be a decisive turning point in the history of the country, although dangers remain. UNIFEED