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We issued a statement yesterday evening in which the Secretary-General strongly condemned the detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Counsellor, as well as President U Win Myint and other political leaders, and that was obviously on the eve of the opening session of Myanmar’s new Parliament.
Stephanie Williams, the acting Special Representative for Libya, opened the new session of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Switzerland today. She told participants that the decision to hold national elections on 24 December is a commitment which must be honoured at all costs.
The Secretary-General strongly condemns yesterday’s deadly terror attack against the Hotel Afrik in Mogadishu, which resulted in several casualties.
Access constraints due to the ongoing conflict and administrative bureaucracy continue to challenge the scale-up of humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia.
Our colleagues on the ground are very concerned about the serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic.
The UN peacekeeping mission said that during Friday’s mini-summit of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region on the situation in the CAR, regional leaders of state and government acknowledged the validity of the December elections.
We welcome – and thank – two new members of our Honour Roll, India and Kiribati. They paid their regular budget dues in full. Our Honour Roll now has 25 members.
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