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Addressing the Security Council meeting on advancing public-private humanitarian partnership, Cindy H. McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, said, “Sadly, today, the humanitarian sector is one of the world’s biggest growth industries.” UNIFEED

The United Nations marked the 20th anniversary of the deadly attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad. Since 2009, every 19 August has been designated World Humanitarian Day. UNIFEED

On the humanitarian situation in the area around the Lachin Corridor, UN senior humanitarian affairs official Edem Wosornu said, “It is incumbent on the parties not to impede or politicize any principled humanitarian effort. Responding to humanitarian needs is not an act of legitimization or recognition; it does not take sides and it does not yield to political influence.” UNIFEED

The Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, visited Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, where 36 hours ago, two massive strikes left dozens of civilians, including children, killed and injured. OCHA

The United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) said that it is gravely concerned about the severe impact of the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) supported by Arab militias and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on civilians in the Darfur region. UNIFEED

Briefing the Security Council, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said that, despite the expiry of the truce, the Yemenis continue to feel the benefits from the longest period of relative calm since the beginning of the conflict. UNIFEED

The Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Najat Rochdi, called for a “nationwide ceasefire” in Syria in line with Security Council resolution 2254, as “Syrians face an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis.” UNIFEED

A United Nations spokesperson told reporters that over the past four weeks, the UN “has facilitated the movement of 438 trucks carrying some 17,000 tons of aid to different parts of Sudan.” UNIFEED

Following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said the priority is “rescuing people from those places,” and providing emergency relief, while the humanitarian, economic and environmental consequences, will also have to be addressed in the next phases of the operation. 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