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The top UN official in Libya urged the Security Council on Thursday to express clear support for a new unified government in Libya, amid hopeful signs that a decade of armed conflict might finally be coming to an end.
Stephanie Williams, the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), told the 15-member organ that intra-Libyan dialogues – facilitated by the Mission – have produced “tangible results”.
#Libya: “I am pleased to report that the ceasefire signed in Geneva on 23 October continues to be observed,” Acting Special Representative Williams said in a @UN Security Council briefing today. https://t.co/Di1GMgQHmPpic.twitter.com/O4PLUiDScu
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Risk of Instability, Tension Growing, amid Glaring Inequalities in Global COVID-19 Recovery, Top United Nations Officials Warn Security Council
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The sweeping and devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are continuing to grow, and so too are the risks of instability and tension amidst glaring inequalities in the global recovery, senior United Nations officials warned today during a Security Council videoconference on the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on international peace and security.
The meeting focused on the implementation of resolution 2532 (2020), adopted on 1 July 2020, in which the Council expressed its support for the Secretary-General’s appeal, made 100 days earlier, for a global ceasefire to help unite efforts to fight COVID-19 in the world’s most vulnerable countries. Through that text, the 15-member organ also called for an immediate 90-day humanitarian pause to enable the safe, unhindered and sustained delivery of life-saving assistance
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 8:49 am
Since September, the devastation wrought by the
COVID-19 pandemic has deepened, infecting close to 100
million people, costing more than $3 trillion in lost wages
and intensifying obstacles for peace and security around the
world, the UN political chief told the Security Council on
Monday.
And while the pandemic has
“hindered diplomatic action and complicated our
peacemaking efforts”, Rosemary DiCarlo,
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding
Affairs said via videoconference that it has “amplified
the prevention challenge” and aggravated underlying
dynamics of armed conflicts.
Moreover, “new strains
of the virus are poised to unleash more severe waves of
infection at a time when health systems and social safety