UK assumes UN Security Council presidency for November

The UK on Friday took over the rotational presidency of the UN Security Council from Switzerland for November, Report informs via Anadolu.

"We assume the presidency during an exceptionally difficult time, the world is facing more conflict now than at any other point since World War II," Ambassador Barbara Woodward, permanent representative of the UK to the UN, told the reporters.

The UK will focus on the three biggest conflicts in the world, she said, citing the devastation and the risk of war in the Middle East, Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine and the conflict in Sudan.

Stressing that over 339 million people currently rely on humanitarian aid delivered by the UN and its humanitarian partners just to survive, the ambassador said the UN is under "enormous pressure" from various quarters.