This morning in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the Secretary-General spoke at the opening ceremony of the 27th UN Climate Change conference, otherwise known as COP27.

Moving on to our Department of Peace Operations, the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, as you know, is with Courtney Rattray, the Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General.

Moving on to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we have an update from our peacekeeping colleagues.

Our peacekeeping colleagues in Mali report that over the weekend two of their armoured vehicles that were part of a Force convoy were hit by two separate improvised explosive devices – better known as IEDs.

Finally, I have an update from Afghanistan. Our UN team there, led by Resident Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov, called for urgent collective action to halt the devastating impact of climate change in the country.

On Syria, senior UN officials in the region have expressed their deep concern over the escalation of hostilities in the country’s north-west.

For further details please see SOURCE below.
Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

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