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FILE - This Sunday, April 19, 2020 file photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. The head of the U.N. food agency warned of starvation and another wave of mass migration from Syria to Europe unless donors countries step up financial assistance to the war-ravaged country. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

UN Council rejects Russia bid to limit Syrian aid deliveries

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Libyan Ministry of justice employees dig out at a siyte of a suspected mass grave in the town of Tarhouna, Libya, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The United Nations said that at least eight mass graves have been discovered, mostly in Tarhuna, a key western town that served as a main stronghold for Khalifa's east-based forces in their 14-month campaign to capture the capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)

UN chief tells Libya’s Hifter there is no military solution

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this picture made available Friday, June 26, 2020 an aerial view shows a giant ephemeral landart painting by Swiss French artist Saype entitled &quot;World in Progress&quot; representing two children drawing their ideal world, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. The artwork covering 6000 square meters was produced with biodegradable paints made from natural pigments such as coal and chalk. The fresco, offered by Switzerland, for the the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco on 26.6.1945 will be inaugurated by Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, in the presence of the Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva, Tatiana Valovaya. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

Low-key 75th anniversary of UN’s birth because of pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

People take part in a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank and Trump's mideast initiative, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

UN chief hopes Israel decides against West Bank annexation

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Lahore, Pakistan. Guterres expressed hope Tuesday, June 23, 2020 that Israel will hear global calls and will not go ahead with annexation of parts of the West Bank, which would undermine a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry, File)

UN chief: Major UN achievement at 75 is no big power war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the UNHCR - Global Refugee Forum at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. When financial markets collapsed and the world faced its last great crisis in 2008, major powers worked together to restore the global economy, but the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking for the opposite response. The financial crisis gave birth to the leaders’ summit of the Group of 20, the world’s richest countries responsible for 80% of the global economy. But when Guterres proposed ahead of their summit in late March that G-20 leaders adopt a “wartime” plan and cooperate on the global response to suppress the virus, there was no response (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

UN chief criticizes lack of global cooperation on COVID-19

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

24 organizations urge UN chief to blacklist Saudi coalition

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the UNHCR - Global Refugee Forum at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. When financial markets collapsed and the world faced its last great crisis in 2008, major powers worked together to restore the global economy, but the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking for the opposite response. The financial crisis gave birth to the leaders’ summit of the Group of 20, the world’s richest countries responsible for 80% of the global economy. But when Guterres proposed ahead of their summit in late March that G-20 leaders adopt a “wartime” plan and cooperate on the global response to suppress the virus, there was no response (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

UN chief takes Saudis off blacklist for harming Yemen’s kids

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN links items in arms shipments and missile attacks to Iran

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN chief: COVID-19 compounds dire situation in Mali, Sahel

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo taken Thursday, April 30, 2020, Women carrying their children lineup to receive vegetables from the Jan Hofmeyer community services in the Vrededorp neighborhood of Johannesburg. South Africa is struggling to balance its fight against the coronavirus with its dire need to resume economic activity. The country with the Africa’s most developed economy also has its highest number of infections — more than 19,000. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

UN chief warns leaders pandemic may cause historic famine

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the UNHCR - Global Refugee Forum at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. When financial markets collapsed and the world faced its last great crisis in 2008, major powers worked together to restore the global economy, but the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking for the opposite response. The financial crisis gave birth to the leaders’ summit of the Group of 20, the world’s richest countries responsible for 80% of the global economy. But when Guterres proposed ahead of their summit in late March that G-20 leaders adopt a “wartime” plan and cooperate on the global response to suppress the virus, there was no response (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

UN chief says pandemic is unleashing a ‘tsunami of hate’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses his statement, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN leader says 1B people with disabilities hard hit by virus

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the UNHCR - Global Refugee Forum at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. When financial markets collapsed and the world faced its last great crisis in 2008, major powers worked together to restore the global economy, but the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking for the opposite response. The financial crisis gave birth to the leaders’ summit of the Group of 20, the world’s richest countries responsible for 80% of the global economy. But when Guterres proposed ahead of their summit in late March that G-20 leaders adopt a “wartime” plan and cooperate on the global response to suppress the virus, there was no response (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

Unlike 2008 crisis, pandemic has no leader, no global plan

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A primary care physician walks to visit a patient during a rainfall in Barcelona, Spain, April 21, 2020, as the lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus continues. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

UN: COVID-19 deaths for people over 80 are 5 times average

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A thermal camera monitor shows the body temperature of passengers as they wait in line before boarding airplanes at the domestic flight terminal of Gimpo airport in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. South Korean officials have issued public pleas for vigilance to maintain hard-won gains against the coronavirus as the nation enters its longest holiday since infections surged in February. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

UN chief: World should follow South Korea on COVID-19 fight

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General displayed on a screen at the Environment Ministry as he delivers his speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Due to the coronavirus crisis, the conference will only be held digitally. (Michael Kappeler/Pool via AP)

UN chief:16 armed groups have responded to cease-fire appeal

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Activists of the fridays for future movement placed a poster at a tree in Erfurt, Germany, Friday, April 24, 2020. Youth groups are staging a long-planned global climate demonstration online Friday because of restrictions on public protests during the coronavirus pandemic. Giant slogan reads 'Fight Every Crises'. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

UN chief: Use pandemic to ‘rebuild our world for the better’

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

UN chief: Pandemic is fast becoming a ‘human rights crisis’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin wave at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. Spring is not turning out the way Russian President Vladimir Putin might have planned it. A nationwide vote on April 22, 2020 was supposed to finalize sweeping constitutional reforms that would allow him to stay in power until 2036, if he wished. But after the coronavirus spread in Russia, that plebiscite had to be postponed – an action so abrupt that billboards promoting it already had been erected in Moscow and other big cities. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France urging top powers to endorse UN virus cease-fire call

By SYLVIE CORBET and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press