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As Insecurity Expands across Africa, United Nations-African Union Partnership Must Prevent Rather than Merely React to Crises, Speakers Urge Security Council
Amid deepening conflict and insecurity across Africa, the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union should shift from reactive crisis management to proactive conflict prevention and from abstract frameworks to concrete implementation of Council resolution 2719 (2023), speakers heard today during the Council’s annual meeting on cooperation with the African Union, ahead of their…
United Nations — meetings coverage and press releases, 6 October 2026, 19:10 — read at the source
States Must Cooperate to Combat Borderless Terrorist Threat, Sixth Committee Hears as Debate Continues
While detailing national efforts to prevent and combat terrorism, speakers also underlined the need for an international framework to unite them as the Sixth Committee (Legal) continued its debate on “measures to eliminate international terrorism” today.
United Nations — meetings coverage and press releases, 6 October 2026, 22:52 — read at the source
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Stay up to date on our coverage of the Main Committees of the General Assembly. Those include the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), Second Committee (Economic and Financial), Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) and Sixth Committee (Legal).
United Nations — meetings coverage and press releases, 6 October 2026, 21:49 — read at the source
Alarming Rise in Nuclear Spending, Proliferation in Drones, Missiles, Due to Decade-Long Erosion of Trust, Fist Committee Speakers Stress
Nuclear risks persist, arms-control arrangements are under pressure and new technologies are transforming the character and speed of conflict, Khalilur Rahman, President of the UN General Assembly, told the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) today, as it began its general debate.
United Nations — meetings coverage and press releases, 6 October 2026, 19:48 — read at the source
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