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The UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Geir Pedersen said that there is a path forward for the Syrian conflict, but if it is not taken, “it goes against the common interests of the international community for stability and progress in Syria.” UNIFEED

Syrian Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Bassam Sabbah reaffirmed his country’s “legitimate right to restore the entire occupied Syrian Golan up to the line of June 4, 1967, no matter how long it takes.” UNIFEED

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concerns over the movement of a large number of civilians to Armenia as a result of the recent hostilities in the region. UNTV CH

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine is concerned by the continuous evidence of war crimes committed by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine and the suffering of the people in Ukraine who have been continuing to cope with the loss and injury of loved ones, large-scale destruction, as well as economic hardship that have resulted from it, the investigators said in their latest report. UNTV CH

Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan said, “the repetitive aggression of Azerbaijan against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia and military attacks against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh significantly disrupts peace and stability in our region, massively violates human rights and humanitarian law representing existential threat for Armenians.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “is aggravating geopolitical tensions and divisions, threatening regional stability, increasing the nuclear threat, and creating deep fissures in our increasingly multipolar world.” UNIFEED

War crimes and crimes against humanity are still being committed in Ethiopia despite the signing of an agreement to cease hostilities 10 months ago, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia warned. UNTV CH

The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, told the Security Council that “any potential or suspected violations of relevant Security Council resolutions” in supplying weapons to parties in the war in Ukraine, “if verified, are very concerning.” UNIFEED

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said, “This Friday, Sudan will mark five months of futility. Five months of futile suffering, death, loss, and destruction.” UNTV CH

The United Nations is “concerned over reports of Russian Federation holding so-called elections in areas of Ukraine currently under Russian military control. These so-called elections in the occupied areas of Ukraine have no legal grounds,” a UN senior official said. UNIFEED