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In a statement on behalf of several members of the Security Council, United States ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) recent missile launches “demonstrate the regime’s determination to pursue weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes at all costs, including at the expense of its own people,” and stressed that the country’s “unlawful behaviour is a threat to international peace and security.” UNIFEED

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi said it was “very strange” that that data storage from an IAEA surveillance camera destroyed during an incident in June at an Iranian centrifuge-parts workshop at Karaj, had disappeared. IAEA

Following a mission to Iran, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi described his consultations with Iranian officials as “inconclusive” and said, “We are close to the point where I would not be able to guarantee continuity of knowledge” on the country’s nuclear programme. IAEA

“The question of international recognition of the Taliban at the present juncture is not on the table,” the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference in New York on the sidelines of the General Assembly on Saturday. UNIFEED

In his speech at the seventy-sixth gathering of world leaders this week in New York, the South Korean President called for “speedy resumption of dialogue between the two Koreas and between the United States and North Korea.” UNIFEED

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said he hoped to be in Tehran “very soon to address these pressing matters that will provide the necessary assurances to the world that there is no concern and also pave the way for other important diplomatic efforts which are needed to come to a satisfactory situation when it comes to the nuclear programme in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” IAEA

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the Agency and Iran “managed to rectify the most urgent issue, which was the imminent loss of knowledge” and has a “way forward” to discuss and resolve outstanding issues. IAEA

In a recorded message to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, UN chief Antonio Guterres paid tribute to the victims and survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and expressed his deep concern by "the lack of progress towards the goal of a nuclear-free world.” UNIFEED

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog expressed concern that Iran has not yet provided “the necessary explanation” on the presence of nuclear material particles at three locations, as requested by the Agency. IAEA

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said he had agreed with Iran to extend by one month the necessary verification and monitoring activities carried out by the Agency in the country.IAEA