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“Reducing food loss and waste represents a triple win opportunity with immediate positive impact on food security, climate benefits, and increased availability of nutritious food while improving the overall sustainability of agrifood systems,” QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said. FAO

The UN team in Armenia, led by the acting Resident Coordinator Nanna Skau, is working with the Government of Armenia to support the rapidly rising influx of refugees across the border. WHO

More than 11,600 children crossed the Central Mediterranean Sea to Italy without their parents or legal guardians between January and mid-September 2023. This is an increase of 60 per cent compared to the same period last year, where around 7,200 unaccompanied or separated children made the perilous crossing. UNICEF

Addressing the Security Council about migrants in the Mediterranean, the Head of the UN Refugee Agency in New York, Ruven Menikdiwela, said, “Saving lives at sea and providing humanitarian assistance is one of the most basic obligations of humanity, and those performing rescue operations or helping in good faith should not be penalized for doing so.” UNIFEED / FILE

The IMF reaffirmed its commitment to “bringing the world to Morocco, and Morocco to the world,” at its Annual Meetings next month, the IMF’s spokesperson Julie Kozack said. IMF

The President of the 78th session of the General Assembly Dennis Francis said that he is encouraged by the engagement and participation of delegations during the Assembly's annual debate, a total of 189 member states spoke from the rostrum. UNIFEED

With the first-ever elections in South Sudan slated for next December, the United Nations Mission in the country supported a Political Parties Forum focused on the need to pick up the pace in the long-delayed democratic transition. UNMISS

The International Organization for Migration appealed for governments in Central America and Mexico to collaborate to address the immediate humanitarian needs of people on the move as unprecedented numbers of vulnerable migrants transit through the region while also working on long-term solutions to tackle the drivers of migration. IOM

Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said having only one out of the five leaders of the permanent members of the Security Council attend the General Assembly’s General Debate was “disappointing,” and added that “we might have had more commitments that would have been tangible had they been here on many of the SDGs.” UNIFEED

Moroccan Ambassador Omar Hilale said that his country is facing the repercussions from the recent earthquake with “determination, seriousness and solidarity. And these are the values of Morocco.” UNIFEED