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International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim opened the 33rd session of the IMO Assembly (A 33), which is meeting at IMO Headquarters in London from 27 November – 6 December 2023. IMO

Ahead of COP28 taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Secretary-General António Guterres visited melting glaciers in Antarctica and called for countries to “act now to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, protect people from climate chaos, and end the fossil fuel age.” UNIFEED

Speaking from Cairo, Ahmed Al Mandhari, World Health Organization’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said, “There are around 154 attacks reported on healthcare facilities in Gaza.” UNIFEED

Two critical energy autotransformers have arrived in Ukraine, to help ensure power to over half a million people. UNDP

Briefing the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, said, “Residents of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Lviv, Sumy, Donetsk, Odesa, Kyiv, and other regions continued to face unrelenting and often indiscriminate attacks.” UNIFEED

More than 11,600 children crossed the Central Mediterranean Sea to Italy without their parents or legal guardians between January and mid-September 2023. This is an increase of 60 per cent compared to the same period last year, where around 7,200 unaccompanied or separated children made the perilous crossing. UNICEF

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “is going throughout the world asking for money, asking for attention, asking for weapons, asking for other things,” and added that his proposals for ending the conflict are “completely not feasible.” UNIFEED

Twenty-nine metric tonnes of health supplies arrived in Benghazi, Libya, from the WHO Global Logistics Hub in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. WHO

Addressing a youth event to celebrate the International Day of Peace, United Nations Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas said, “peace and sustainable development are inextricably linked. You cannot have one without the other. And you cannot have either without the participation of everyone.” UNIFEED

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the completion of the work stabilizing the decaying Safer Tanker and transferring more than 1.1 million barrels of oil it held to the replacement vessel Yemen, “marks the end of a pivotal chapter in the UN-led operation to address the threat of a major oil spill.” UNIFEED