Potential reforms could include increases in the numbers of permanent and non-permanent members to help better address the complex and evolving challenges to international peace and security. “Just the pure fact that we have 80 percent of the agenda” in the Security Council on African issues without the continent having a permanent seat there is “an important message” that speaks to the necessity of “finding compromises” and taking steps to “reform the council to make it more effective.”ĭiscussions and debates at the UN have intensified in recent months, especially since the start of the war in Ukraine, about the need for significant reforms of the council to take into account the changing needs of global governance in terms of peace and security, including growing calls from the Global South for a more effective presence at the table. She said one of her country’s priorities is to work on making the UN a more effective organization. Tanja Fajon was speaking at the UN headquarters in New York following a General Assembly vote that elected her country as one of five new non-permanent members of the council, the UN body tasked with maintaining global peace and security. NEW YORK CITY: Any negotiations about UN Security Council reforms must include discussions about permanent seats for the African Union and the Arab League, Slovenia’s deputy prime minister and minister for foreign affairs told Arab News on Tuesday. But, in a statement on International Children’s Day, UN human rights monitors in Ukraine said 525 children had been killed since the invasion. Ukraine reported no major damage from Thursday’s attack, saying it had shot down all 10 missiles. Russia has denied targeting civilians or committing war crimes though its air strikes have caused devastation in cities across Ukraine since the full-scale invasion on Feb. He cried, saying that we’re all gonna die.
“My child got really scared, he sat in the corner of our corridor. We sat there the whole time, there were a few more explosions,” said Oleksandra, 25, visiting the memorial with her five-year-old son Hryhoriy. “I grabbed my child and ran into the corridor because I didn’t have any other options. In earlier comments to reporters in Moldova, Zelensky said that as well as facing the Russian enemy, “we also have internal ones.” He said the response could be a “knockout” blow, a veiled dig at Klitschko, a former heavyweight boxing champion.Īt a makeshift memorial for the girl, another parent woken by the attacks spoke of her terror. This was “very clearly” the duty of local authorities “and if this duty is not fulfilled at the local level, it is the direct duty of law enforcement bodies to prosecute.”
Never again should we see a repeat of the situation that occurred last night in Kyiv.” Zelensky, in his nightly video message, said shelters “must be kept accessible. Local media said prosecutors searched city administration offices as part of the investigation. The case prompted calls for residents to check shelters and report safety violations. “The entrance was closed, there were already maybe five to 10 women with children. My wife took our daughter and they ran to the entrance here,” local resident Yaroslav Ryabchuk told Reuters in the Desnyanskyi district. Residents said people were unable to enter the shelter because it was closed. “A rocket fragment fell near the entrance to the clinic four minutes after the air alert was announced. “Three people, one of them a child, died near the clinic last night,” Klitschko said. Police opened a criminal investigation into the three deaths near a medical clinic in the Desnyanskyi district of Kyiv after the 18th attack on the capital since the start of May.
His comments appeared aimed at Kyiv city authorities and Mayor Vitali Klitschko, with whom he has periodically clashed during the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed frustration at the miscue and said if local officials were unable to provide protection, they could be prosecuted. KYIV: A nine-year-old Ukrainian girl, her mother and another woman were killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday after the air raid shelter they rushed to failed to open, witnesses said.
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