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The United Nations held on Friday a pledging conference for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as an opportunity for Member States to match their political commitment with sufficient and predictable financial contributions. UNIFEED

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen, today (30 May) said it was “vital” that recent diplomatic moves in Syria “are matched with real action,” as the Syrian people “continue to suffer on massive scale.” UNIFEED

According to the UN, 339 million people will require humanitarian aid this year just to survive. Almost one third of these people live in countries subject to UN sanctions. UNIFEED

Despite the protracted challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, political instability and funding shortfalls, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has continued to deliver its essential work to provide health care services to Palestine refugees in 2022 across the Agency’s five fields of operation Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza and Syria. UNTV CH

One hundred days after the deadliest earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria's recent history, millions of children and families are struggling to rebuild their lives, with 2.5 million children in Türkiye and 3.7 million in Syria in need of continued humanitarian assistance. UNICEF

The UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, said that all efforts by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Technical Secretariat to organize the next round of consultations between the Declaration Assessment Team (DAT) and the Syrian National Authority continue to be unsuccessful. UNIFEED

The Global Report on Food Crises 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries and territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC, the report says. UNIFEED

The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and with people in seven countries on the brink of starvation and death, says the latest report on acute hunger released Wednesday. FAO 

The UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said, “In the tragic aftermath of the earthquakes, we have seen renewed diplomatic attention on Syria. Diplomacy is continuing involving the Astana players and the Syrian Government.” UNIFEED

The Secretary-General met with the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation,  Sergey Lavrov. They discussed the war in Ukraine, as well as the situations in Afghanistan and Syria. UNIFEED