The Latest Breaking News from Security Council

“The hungry people of the world are counting on us and… we must not let them down.”

The U.N. food chief is warning that the world faces “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude," with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation — and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine

Impasse over country’s representation at global body is hampering efforts to end the crisis caused by the 2021 coup.

Multilateralism, embodied in the United Nations (UN) as the world’s primary body for fostering international relations and international law among all countries, has been the mainstay of global history since the World War II.

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Sudan, Volker Perthes warned that the overall situation in the country will continue to worsen unless a political situation is found to restore a credible, fully functioning civilian-led government. In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Perthes stressed there…

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) sought to assure Lebanese authorities after amendments were introduced to its mission last month. In a statement on Tuesday, it said: “Our peacekeepers remain committed to security and stability in south Lebanon and continue to work closely with the Lebanese Armed Forces…

The UN Security Council has urged warring parties in Yemen to urgently intensify negotiations towards expanding their historic truce that could be translated into a "durable ceasefire," according to a UN statement issued on Monday.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is in Saudi Arabia on his first visit to the Gulf Kingdom

Lebanese authorities sought to contain the fallout of the amendments introduced to the mission of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) that is deployed in the country’s South, a Hezbollah stronghold. At the request of the Lebanese government, the UN Security Council extended UNIFIL’s mandate for another year…

U.S. President Joe Biden will co-host a food security summit later in September while in New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield will announce later on Thursday.

The United Nations cited "credible accusations" Wednesday that Moscow's forces have forcibly taken Ukrainian children to Russia, while Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of benefitting from the eased grain blockade. Kyiv meanwhile said its forces had recaptured significant territory in a counter-offensive southeast of Kharkiv that experts say…