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A US-proposed draft resolution calling for “immediate, sustained ceasefire" in Gaza was vetoed by permanent Council members China and Russia, in a vote of 11 favour to three against (Algeria, China, Russia) and one abstention (Guyana). UNIFEED

The General Assembly held a plenary meeting to debate the use of a veto cast by the United States on a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on 20 February 2024. UNIFEED

The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, said, "Two years on – and a decade since Russia’s attempted illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol – the war in Ukraine remains an open wound at the heart of Europe." UNIFEED

Addressing the annual ceremony in remembrance of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “all of us – leaders and citizens – have a responsibility” to listen to Holocaust survivors, “to learn from what you have to say, and to act on it, by condemning these terrible crimes against our common humanity.” UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk opened a two-day event in Geneva marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Opening the meeting, Türk described the importance of the Universal Declaration, written in the aftermath of World War Two. OHCHR

In a statement read by his Chef de Cabinet, Secretary-General António Guterres marked the 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention and said, “in today's world of deep division, mistrust and conflict, we remain confronted by the enduring menace of this atrocious crime.” UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned the Security Council today that “the situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour” and “the war in Gaza is raging and risks spiraling throughout the region.” UNIFEED

Speaking to reporters in New York, Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan said, “This is Israel's 9/11 and Israel will do everything to bring our sons and daughters back home.” UNIFEED

Speaking ahead of the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, observed on June 18, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, said that “the root causes” of hate speech “are not technological” but “technology is really just the means through which these ideas are communicated.” UNIFEED

“These clothes represent the latest moment of my daughters, how their lives have been taken, how young they were, angels,” a survivor said in an interview on the occasion of the exhibition "Stories of Survival and Remembrance - A Call to Action for the Prevention of Genocide.” UNIFEED