Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday called for expanding the UN Security Council and reforming the right of veto granted to its permanent members, in his first in-person address around the iconic horseshoe table.
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UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, addresses a Security Council meeting. (file)
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The “horrific conflict,” in Ukraine shows no signs of abating, the UN political and peacebuilding chief told the Security Council on Tuesday, pointing out that since her last update on 5 April, “countless Ukrainian civilians” have been killed in indiscriminate attacks, cities and towns levelled, and much of the country’s arable land “horribly disfigured by shelling”. can
© UNICEF/Anton Skyba for The Globe and Mail A man photographs an apartment building that was heavily damaged during escalating conflict, in Kyiv, Ukraine. UN Photo/Loey Felipe The UN Security Council meets on the situation in Ukraine, 27 February 2022. © UNICEF/Tom Remp Families arrive in Berdyszcze, Poland, after crossing the border from Ukraine, fleeing …
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© UNICEF/Oleksandr Ratushniak A woman holds her newborn baby in a makeshift ward at a perinatal centre in Kyiv, Ukraine.