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STATEMENT BY PATRICK GAUCHAT, SPECIAL REREPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL SECURITY COUNCIL BRIEFING on UNTSO New York 19/12/2023 I am grateful for the opportunity to address the Security Council to share the perspective of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) on the…

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan

More than an entire month has passed without a drop of aid into Gaza. No food. No fuel. No medicine. No commercial supplies. As aid has dried up, the floodgates of horror have re-opened. Gaza is a killing field – and civilians are in an endless death loop. Certain truths are clear since the…

The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by the human toll of the intensified hostilities in Gaza. He condemns the reported killing of over a thousand people, including women and children, since the collapse of the ceasefire. Large-scale Israeli bombardments and ground operations have resulted in…

In the past week, Israel carried out devastating strikes on Gaza, claiming the lives of hundreds of civilians, including United Nations personnel, with no humanitarian aid being allowed to enter the Strip since early March. As a result, the Secretary-General has taken the difficult decision to…

The Purposes of the United Nations are: To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by…

The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by Sunday's strike by Israeli forces on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, incapacitating the hospital in Gaza City and dealing a severe blow to an already devastated healthcare system in the Strip. The Secretary-General recalls that, under international humanitarian law…

Madam President, Members of the Security Council, Today’s briefing is devoted to the thirty-third report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016). It covers the period from 7 December to 13 March. Security Council resolution 2334 (2016) calls on…

Mogadishu — On his first visit to Somalia, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Jorge Moreira da Silva, reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to supporting Somalia’s peacebuilding efforts and helping it…

JONGLEI – Significant efforts are being made to combat the sexual and gender-based violence that perseveres in plaguing mostly women and girls in South Sudan. In another bid to put an end to these harmful practices, Jonglei State has launched a taskforce set to coordinate all actions taken to tackle…

JUBA - Tens of thousands of people who fled violence during the brutal civil war that raged across South Sudan in 2013 found sanctuary next to the United Nations peacekeeping base in Juba. Twelve years later, many remain in the camps, as they feel unable to return safely to their original homes and…

JUBA - Tens of thousands of people who fled violence during the brutal civil war that raged across South Sudan in 2013 found sanctuary next to the United Nations peacekeeping base in Juba. Twelve years later, many remain in the camps, as they feel unable to return safely to their original homes and…