Director of Coordination of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefs UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Syria).
Exercises are conducted in the South China Sea by China, Russia, the US, and the Philippines.Taiwan says it will commit to bolstering own defenses. Thailand authorities investigate hotel poisoning deaths. Rare whale washes ashore in New Zealand.
Representative of the United States to the United Nations, briefs reporters on the humanitarian situation in Sudan.
Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security, on the theme “Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order”
Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the ministerial opening of the High-level Political Forum 2024.
In order to address the alarming rate of food insecurity in the war-torn northeast of Nigeria, the United Nations humanitarian organization says it is struggling to raise enough funds. According to officials, the growing number of global crises is making aid-dependent countries compete for limited resources
Mutryce Agatha Williams (right at table), Permanent Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the question concerning Haiti.
A young participant attends the unveiling of the Kusikawsay Monument, a gift from Colombia to the United Nations.
A wide view of the United Nations General Assembly Hall as Dennis Francis (on screens and left at dais), President of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, chairs the 98th plenary meeting of the General Assembly.