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The United Nations condemns the attack on the Azarbaijan embassy in Tehran, Iran, that reportedly resulted in multiple casualties, including one fatality, a UN Spokesperson informed. UNIFEED

Ahead of the Africa launch of the “Global Alliance to end Aids in children” on 1 February in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, UNAIDS warned today of a “forgotten generation of children” grappling with HIV that are not receiving any treatment. UNTV CH

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “at its essence, Holocaust remembrance is a call to be on constant alert. Never to be silent in the face of hate. Never tolerant of intolerance. Never indifferent to the suffering of others.” UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Mali, El-Ghassim Wane, said that the security environment in the country had remained complex in recent months, particularly in the Center and the tri-border area between Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. UNIFEED

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, concluded a six-day visit to war torn Ukraine, his third visit since the Russian invasion, with a call for donors to stay the course and support the people who are suffering acutely. UNHCR

A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office told reporters, “Two years after the Myanmar military launched a coup against the democratically elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis and has undergone a wholesale regression in human rights.” UNTV CH

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “let us stem the tide of human cruelty and fight antisemitism and all forms of racism wherever and whenever it manifests itself,” adding “Let us forever keep the memory of the past alive – and never let others forget either.” UNIFEED

According to the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), the situation in the country’s east remains tense, with reports of clashes between the Congolese armed forces and the M23 south and south-east of Kitchanga, in North Kivu province, a UN spokesperson told reporters. UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conducted a two-day official mission to Colombia from Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 January, at the invitation of the Government. OHCHR

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, began his visit to Lebanon today by meeting Lebanese officials in Beirut. UNIFIL