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The Latest Breaking News from UN Security Council

In northern Syria, displaced blame Russia for end to vital aid

UN Security Council unable to agree on extension to cross-border aid to opposition areas, which expired on Monday.

Al Jazeera

Iran, Russia Are Chided Repeatedly At Heated UN Security Council Meeting

Tehran berated for JCPOA violations including illegal weapons transfers and increasing ballistic missile development and testing

Zenger

Serbia to seek meeting with NATO chief, UN Security Council session on Kosovo tensions

Serbia’s president has accused Kosovo of carrying out “silent” ethnic cleansing of Serbs and said his country will seek an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council to demand their protection

The Independent UK

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Want to see expansion of UNSC permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany, Japan: U.K.

The U.K. has called for the expansion of the UN Security Council’s permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany and Japan as well as African representation, underlining that it is high time the powerful UN body entered the 2020s.

The Hindu

The UN votes for MINUSMA peacekeepers to leave Mali

The UN Security Council has voted not to maintain MINUSMA, the UN peacekeeping force in Mali, as the mission ends on this day.

Radio France Internationale

UN Security Council votes to end peacekeeping mission in Mali

The United Nations has voted to end its decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali... The UN Security Council's decision comes two weeks after Mali's military leadership accused the 13-thousand strong Minusma force of failing to tackle a jihadist insurgency. In August last year, France withdrew its troops from Mali... that reopened…

France 24

UN vote on maintaining its peace force in Mali is postponed until Friday

The UN Security Council is due to hold a vote Friday on whether to maintain Minusma - the UN peacekeeping force in Mali - after 30 June when the mission ends.

Radio France Internationale

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Israeli Counter-Drone System Gains Interest Amidst Russian Drone Usage In Ukraine

Rafael's Drone Dome system has been deployed in Dubai and NATO states, and is being tested by the US FAA.

Zenger

Mali asks UN to withdraw its peacekeeping mission ‘without delay’

The West African nation’s military rulers criticised MINUSMA’s ‘failure’ to respond to security challenges.

Al Jazeera

China and Russia ignore US call at UN to condemn North Korea launch

China and Russia on Friday ignored a U.S. call for the U.N. Security Council to unite in condemning North Korea for its attempted satellite launch this week and instead blamed Washington for raising tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Reuters

US calls for UN meeting on North Korea's attempted satellite launch

The United States has called for a U.N. Security Council meeting on Friday to discuss North Korea's attempted satellite launch this week, the spokesperson for the U.S. mission to the United Nations said.

Reuters

North Korean leader's sister slams US for criticizing failed satellite launch

The sister of North Korean Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of “gangster-like” hypocrisy for criticizing her country’s failed launch of a military spy satellite and insisted a successful launch will be made soon

The Independent UK

North Korea says it will launch its first military spy satellite in June

North Korea on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch its first military spy satellite in June and described such capacities as crucial for monitoring the United States’ “reckless” military exercises with rival South Korea

The Independent UK

France says Iran ballistic test worrying in light of nuclear escalation

France on Thursday accused Iran of violating a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal after it carried out a long-range ballistic missile test, which Paris said was worrying given "uninterrupted escalation" of Tehran's nuclear programme.

Reuters

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Peace in Sudan depends on justice for the Darfur genocide

I asked the pilot to deviate from our approved flight path and go low over Darfur. It was 2003 and I was the United Nations Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in Sudan investigating reports of violence. What I saw was a genocide unfolding on my watch.

Reuters

UN official criticised after meeting Russian sought by ICC

Rights groups and the top U.S. justice envoy on Saturday criticised a meeting between a leading United Nations official for children and Russia's ombudsman for children's rights, who is wanted by the world's permanent war crimes court.

Zenger

UN Security Council Holds Another Emergency Meeting On Israel-Gaza Hostilities

Ambassadors to the United Nations, landed safely in Tel Aviv, experiencing life in a city under attack

Al Jazeera

Taliban FM to meet Pakistan, China foreign ministers: Media

Taliban’s interim foreign minister gets UN clearance to travel for meeting with counterparts in Pakistan.

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US envoy to UN urges Russian foreign minister to free detainees

At the UN Security Council, US envoy says Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich have been used by Moscow as ‘human pawns’.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Chief Criticizes Russia at UN Meeting Chaired by Lavrov

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting chaired by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is "causing massive suffering and devastation to the country and its people" and fueling "global economic dislocation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic." "Tensions between major powers are at an…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia’s Lavrov to Talk Ukraine Grain Deal with UN Chief Next Week

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss the Ukraine Black Sea grain export deal with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York next week, just weeks before the pact could expire unless Russian demands regarding its own exports are met. Lavrov is due to chair two UN Security Council meetings…

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: Six killed in heavy shelling near Bakhmut as strikes destroy nursery

Putin’s forces target town of Kostiantynivka

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: Zelensky condemns Russia’s UN Security Council presidency as ‘absurd’

It comes as the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes

Radio France Internationale

Ukraine cries shame as Russia takes UN Security Council chair

On 1 April, Russia took up the presidency of the 15-nation UN Security Council. Ukraine's foreign minister described the situation as "the worst joke ever for April Fool's Day".

Reuters

White House urges Russia to act professionally during UN Security Council presidency

The White House on Thursday urged Russia to conduct itself professionally when it assumes its scheduled UN Security Council presidency next month, saying there was no means to block Moscow from the post.

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