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A busy street in Istanbul, Turkey.

Wide view of the General Assembly Hall while ballots are being collected for the election of new non-permanent members of the Security Council for two-year terms starting on 1 January 2017.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel, in Jerusalem.

Annual ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment gets underway.

The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, on 24 June expressed deep satisfaction at the signing of a bilateral ceasefire agreement by the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) ending the armed conflict that has torn the country for more than half a century.

A staff member of the Liberia National Police Anti-Drug Squad reviews the municipal dump outside Monrovia, Liberia.

UNICEF has been working with partners in Bama, Borno State, since March 2016, providing health, nutrition and water and sanitation support in a camp housing 25,000 people displaced by the conflict, including 15,000 children.

Drug dependence treatment in Myanmar.

Secretary-General Attends Ceremony for Colombian Ceasefire Agreement, Havana.

The creation of an EU border control system received a first green light from Parliament and Council negotiators on Tuesday night. The cornerstone of the deal is to upgrade the Frontex border agency, which, together with national border management authorities, will form a European Border and Coast Guard. It is now up to member states and Parliament as a whole to endorse the agreement.