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UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told reporters that the discussion today which concluded a week-long session of the Constitutional Committee was a “big disappointment.” UNTV CH

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen described the first meeting between the two Co-chairs of the Small Body of the Syrian Constitutional Committee as “serious and frank” and hoped to continue meetings over the next week in the “same spirit.” UNTV CH

World Food Day 2021 celebrations began on 15 October 2021, with a global event where participants noted that while the challenges of global hunger, climate crisis and COVID-19 remain formidable, there is also a new momentum and energy behind efforts to transform our agri-food systems, making them more fit for purpose. FAO

“Five million people are being affected by the ongoing water crisis” in the north and northeast of Syria, the United Nations said on Tuesday, calling for a “multi sector response” of USD 251 million to target 3.4 million of the most impacted people over the next six months. UNIFEED

The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu told the Security Council that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “has not received yet a response from the Syrian national authority on the request for information and documentation regarding the damage caused to the declared former Chemical Weapons Production Facility during the attack on 8 of June 2021 reported by the Syrian National authority.” UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen announced that an agreement has been reached for the next round of the Constitutional Committee and said, “With military frontlines largely frozen for eighteen months, and concerns from parties regarding the status quo, the time to push for a political process is now.” UNIFEED

Syrian Foreign Minister Faysal Al Mekdad warned “the few seeking secession” in the northeast against “harboring such illusions that are rejected by the Syrian people because by pursuing such ends, they are placing themselves in the category of those plotting against Syria's unity, both in land and people; and they will be dealt with accordingly.” UNIFEED

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “the West wants to exclude those of a different point of view from global decision -making processes.” UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet updated the Human Rights Council on the extent of conflict-related deaths in the Syrian Arab Republic, presenting a list of 350,209 identified individuals killed in the conflict in Syria between March 2011 to March 2021.OHCHR

"We need the full support of the Arab League" in efforts to find "a political solution in both Syria and Yemen," as well as in dealing with other crisis in Middle East, the Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told reporters before chairing an informal interactive dialogue between the UN Security Council and the League of Arab States. UNIFEED