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Following the completion of a technical assessment, the Secretariat of the United Nations has responded positively to the request of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela to deploy a UN Panel of Electoral Experts for the November 2021 regional and municipal elections, A UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report showed that the COVID-19 pandemic “severely impacted our fight against tuberculosis,” with TB deaths increasing for the first time in a decade. WHO

Ongoing conflict and violence across Yemen continue to impact heavily on the country’s people who desperately need the fighting to end, so that they can rebuild their lives, the UN’s senior humanitarian official in the country said on Monday. UNTV CH

Pope Francis sent a message to youth leaders on the opening day of the World Food Forum, a global movement that seeks to harnesses the energy and creativity of young people to shape a better future for our food. FAO

The President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, told reporters that only 18 of the 194 speakers, about 9.2 percent, at this year’s General Debate were women, and said “if we don’t take the necessary steps to turn this tide, we will need 135.6 years, according to recent studies, to close the gender gap.” UNIFEED

Marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, UN chief António Guterres called on all States to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and recognize its place in the global disarmament architecture. UNIFEED

Ambassador Kim Song of the DPRK told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “the possible outbreak of a new war on the Korean peninsula is contained not because of the US’ mercy” but because “our state is growing reliable deterrent that can control the hostile forces in their attempts for military invasion.” UNIFEED

“Iran cannot be allowed to think time is on its side, because the more dangerous its nuclear programme becomes, the greater the risk of a major crisis,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the UN General Assembly on Monday. 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

Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Salih said that it is “inexcusable” that the position of certain countries, “notably the US and its European allies, to defend the TPLF’s illicit and dangerous acts of insurrection and mayhem and marshal all the tools in their disposal to rehabilitate it at any cost.” UNIFEED