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Statement by the United Nations Resident Coordinator for the United Arab Emirates, Dr. Dena Assaf on the Tenth World Urban Forum	Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Indonesian city of Surabaya to host the Global Observance of World Habitat Day 2020	Wednesday, 12 February 2020
HRH Princess Lamia Bint Majed Al Saud appointed as UN-Habitat Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Arab States	Sunday, 9 February 2020
UN-Habitat and the World Blind Union sign a milestone agreement to work together to make cities accessible for all	Tuesday, 4 February 2020
Global Observance of World Habitat Day to take place in Mexico City	Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Nairobi Communique – Outcome of the High-Level Session on Inno- vative Urban Mobility for Sustainable Cities in Africa at UN-Habitat Assembly, 30 May 2019	Friday, 14 June 2019
Call for Expressions of Interest to Host the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance Secretariat	Tuesday, 11 June 2019
UN-Habitat Assembly concludes with Ministerial Declaration on challenges and opportunities of urbanization.	Friday, 31 May 2019

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory	Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Statement by the UN-Habitat Executive Director on the situation in Gaza	Thursday, 2 November 2023
Executive Director of UN-Habitat briefing to Member States on the Implementation of the Second Session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly	Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Statement of Poland on behalf of the Group of Friends of UN-Habitat at HLPF on SDG11 in New York	Thursday, 13 July 2023
Statement of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, HLPF Plenary session on SDG11	Thursday, 13 July 2023
Communication from the Permanent Mission of the Russian federation to Nairobi dated June 2023	Thursday, 6 July 2023
Communication from the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Kenya for the period of 9 June 2023 to 28 June 2023	Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Executive Director of UN-Habitat speech at the World Refugee Day celebrations at Kakuma-Kalobeyei in Kenya	Monday, 19 June 2023

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