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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the eleventh General Conference of Mayors for Peace, in Nagasaki today:
Disarmament
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports there has been an uptick in armed clashes in three eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri. In the North Kivu province, since 13 July, around 44,000 people have fled fighting.
In Mozambique, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is sounding the alarm over a new wave of violence in Cabo Delgado province. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 57,000 people have been displaced, most of them from Chiúre district.
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Amid an evolving and challenging international security landscape, speakers in the Security Council underscored the continued relevance of its Committee tasked with monitoring and supporting efforts to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors.
SG/SM/22755
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, delivered by Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, to the Peace Memorial ceremony on the eightieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in Hiroshima, Japan, today:
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One hundred young participants from 61 countries around the world have been selected to join the second phase of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons, an interactive learning programme funded by the Government of Japan and managed by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.
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NEW YORK, 18 July (United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs) — On 17 July, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of an independent scientific panel of experts tasked with examining the physical effects and societal consequences of a nuclear war on a local, regional and planetary scale in the days, weeks and decades following a nuclear war.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) today released a report warning that following major cuts to humanitarian budgets, up to 11.6 million refugees and others forced to flee risk losing access this year to direct humanitarian assistance from UNHCR. The figure represents about one third of those reached last year.
The Office for Disarmament Affairs and the UN Development Programme today launched the second phase of the Saving-Lives Entity trust fund, SALIENT 2.0. Established in 2020, the fund integrates small arms control and armed violence reduction into national development strategies as part of wider conflict prevention efforts.
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The Security Council met today to consider the latest developments related to the implementation of its resolution 2231 (2015), which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear programme, following a brokered ceasefire that brought a pause to recent hostilities — air strikes by Israel and the United States on Iranian nuclear sites, and Tehran’s subsequent missile attacks on a United States base in Qatar.