Category: MIL-OSI

Source: United Nations (video statements)

Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said, “Nearly 22 million people will continue to require humanitarian help in 2026, third only to Sudan and Yemen in scale. Our ask is $1.7 billion to target 17.5 million people. We have further hyper-prioritized our plan to target 3.9 million people in most urgent need.”

He added, “For the first time in four years the number of people facing hunger has gone up—now reaching 17.4 million people. And essential services – already insufficient and uneven across the country – are stretched to breaking point as Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan in record numbers. Over 2.6 million Afghans returned in 2025.”

He highlighted, “Increasing human rights restrictions – particularly on Afghan women staff – have made life for many Afghans ever more difficult, and created additional burdens on the implementation of our operations.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4lXIeLaJE

Source: United Nations (video statements)

Briefing by Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the IRMCT, on International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JItSYAwodvE

Source: United Nations (video statements)

“Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is the largest and longest war in Europe since the Second World War,” Elina Valtonen, Finland’s foreign minister and current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office told the UN Security Council.

She said Moscow is violating the UN Charter and “each of the ten Helsinki principles,” adding that assistance to Ukraine and work on accountability have been central to her tenure. “I call on all to support Ukraine in achieving a just and lasting peace – as soon as possible.”

Valtonen said the way the conflict concludes will shape regional and global stability, as well as expectations regarding adherence to international law by a permanent Security Council member.

She outlined steps the OSCE has taken on accountability, including support for documenting the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. “Through the OSCE Support Program for Ukraine, we have helped register missing children and support their rehabilitation,” she said.

Valtonen also underscored the importance of existing security commitments. “There is no need to re-invent the European security order,” she said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=374DivJrct0

Source: United Nations (video statements)

Georgette Gagnon, UN Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that the de facto authorities “continue to miss or reject opportunities to engage multilaterally with the international community, risking disengagement particularly from donor countries that are frustrated with Afghanistan’s refusal to seriously address their concerns.”

Addressing the Security Council, Gagnon said, “Afghans—women and men—continue to experience systematic infringements into their daily lives through the enforcement of the de facto authorities’ law on the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice.”

She also said, “Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the presence and activities of the TTP are rising, with deadly cross-border exchanges of fire and airstrikes resulting in civilian casualties. The tensions have led to the closing of key border posts between Afghanistan and Pakistan for the past two months, with economic consequences for Afghanistan and Pakistan and people on both sides.”

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