Meetings Coverage

The Commission on Population and Development opened its annual session this morning with the election of its officers and the adoption of its agenda and organization of work (E/CN.9/2024/1; E/CN.9/2024/L.1).

The Committee on Information opened its annual session today with remarks from its Chair, Muhammad Usman Iqbal Jadoon (Pakistan), and from Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications.

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues met today to approve the programme for its twenty-fourth session and close its twenty-third session.

Nineteen months on, the United Nations is not in a position to verify claims or reports made regarding attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, two senior officials told the Security Council today, as many delegates — while condemning attacks against civilian infrastructure and calling for accountability — cautioned that any politicization or speculation on this case is detrimental to revealing the truth.

The Security Council met this afternoon to conclude its debate on the theme “Preventing conflict-related sexual violence through demilitarization and gender-responsive arms control”. 

The Security Council met this morning to conclude its ministerial debate on the theme “the role of young people in addressing security challenges in the Mediterranean”.

The Security Council met this afternoon to continue its open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine.  Nearly 30 Member States were expected to make remarks on the situation in Gaza.

The Economic and Social Council’s Financing for Development Forum to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and other financing for development outcomes, as well as the means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), concluded its session today.

Piecemeal measures to tackle Syria’s interlocking political, economic and humanitarian challenges cannot bring stability to the country and the region, the United Nations mediator for Syria told the Security Council today, calling for a new, comprehensive approach that addresses the full range of issues with the warring parties.

More than seven years after it created a mechanism to analyse evidence of human rights abuses in Syria, the General Assembly today considered the work of this body and heard from its Head that additional funding is needed in order to continue assisting national investigations of these crimes, before adopting several draft texts recommended by the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).