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At the United Nations briefing in Geneva, Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the Office of the UN high Commissioner for Human Rights, raised concerns following the Turkish operation inside Syria. The Turkish army and Syrian auxiliaries launched a border operation on Wednesday. Air strikes and artillery fire targeted several border areas in northern Syria. OHCHR

On his first day holding the presidency of the Security Council, South African Ambassador Jerry Matjila told reporters that he does not expect “in the near future there will be a joint statement on Jammu and Kashmir” in the Council. UNIFEED

The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, said if Israel carried through with plans to “annex and apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, northern Dead Sea, and Israel's colonial settlements despite the fact that all these areas are occupied Palestinian territory,” it would result in the termination of all signed agreements and all obligations. UNIFEED

In his address to the General Assembly’s general debate, the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, said his country “has resisted the most merciless economic terrorism” and stressed that Iran’s “response to any negotiation under sanctions is negative.” UNIFEED

“The possession of nuclear power should either be forbidden for all or permissible for all,” Turkish President Recep Erdogan said in his speech today at the United Nations General Debate. UNIFEED

During a Security Council meeting to discuss the Palestinian question, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said, “there is no other viable solution to end the conflict. Those who continue to support a two-State outcome must acknowledge that derailing that prospect means that Palestinians and Israelis are facing a grim future of perpetual occupation, endless violence and threats to regional stability.” UNIFEED

Talking to reporters as a new session of the United Nations General Assembly begins, Secretary-General António Guterres said, the significance of the discussions during the upcoming high-level week can be distilled into two words: “ambition and action.” UNIFEED

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of his plans to annex West Bank settlements if re-elected, a UN spokesperson said, “any Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction, administration, in the occupied West Bank is without any international legal effect.” UNIFEED

Russian Ambassador, Vassily A. Nebenzia, said that the recent exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, “is an event that does not contribute to the stability in the Middle East, which is unstable without what is happening around Lebanon.” UNIFEED

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reports that the situation is calm in its area of operations and that UN troops remain deployed on the ground and along the Blue Line. The Secretary-General was seriously concerned about recent incidents across the Blue Line and called for maximum restraint. UNIFEED