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"I am not optimistic about the possibility of effective peace talks at the immediate future. I do believe that the military confrontation will go on, and I think we'll have still to wait (for) a moment in which serious negotiations for peace will be possible. I don't see them on the immediate horizon," he said.

Kubiak said the meeting took place on Monday with India set to take the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of December on Thursday. Korosi tweeted, "Today's discussions focused on India's presidency of the Security Council." "I look forward to the month ahead," he added. New Delhi has advocated closer coordination between the Council dominated -- and often paralysed.

Nearly 11.2 million tons of essential foodstuffs have been shipped from three Ukrainian ports since the Black Sea Grain Initiative was signed on July 22 by Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations. The agreement is aimed at ensuring food supplies to global markets amid the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. However, 300,000 tons of Russian fertiliser remain stranded in various European ports, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan.

"Over the last week and a half the DPRK has exacerbated an extremely worrisome trend that we've seen all year; an increasing number of (missile) launches in flagrant violation of the Security Council Resolution, destabilising and threatening rhetoric and continue escalation," the US diplomat said at an emergency meeting of the Security Council held in New York.

"We are encouraged by Russia's assurance that it is not pulling out of the initiative and it is only temporarily suspending activities in the implementation," Martin Griffiths, UN UnderSecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, told a Security Council briefing on Monday.

Stephane Dujarric said on Monday, "UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expresses his condolences to the families of the victims, as well as the people and government of India, and wishes a quick recovery to those injured." The suspension bridge over Machchhu river in Gujarat collapsed on Sunday sending hundreds of people plunging into the waters below.

This year's theme of "dignity for all in practice" must be "a rallying cry" for urgent global action, Guterres said. The UN chief noted that inequalities are widening, national and household economies are battered by job losses, skyrocketing food and energy prices, and the gathering shadows of a global recession.

UN Development Program (UNDP) warned of the risks of inaction in a new paper, noting that if these countries do not get access to effective debt restructuring, poverty will rise and desperately needed investments in climate adaptation and mitigation will not happen, reports Xinhua news agency.

Speaking to reporters on Friday after India had abstained for at least the ninth time on a substantive resolution on Ukraine, she said that it was not done to support Russia and it had made clear the condemnation of the invasion. India joined China, Brazil and Gabon to abstain on a Security Council resolution condemning Russia's annexation of four Ukraine territories it had captured.

Guterres made the appeal at a UN General Assembly high-level meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which falls on September 26. "We come together on this international day to speak with one voice. To stand in defence of our world -- and our future. And to reject the claim that nuclear disarmament is some impossible utopian dream," he said on Monday.