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Guterres going to G20 summit with messages of global financial reform, fighting climate change UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday that he will be going to the G20 summit in New Delhi carrying the messages of global financial reform and fighting climate change as he takes a swing through four international summits ahead of next month's high-level UN meetings. G20 countries, as the world’s biggest economies, "need to look seriously into reform of global financial institutions, rules and frameworks, to adapt them to today’s realities and mo...
Guterres going to G20 summit with messages of global financial reform, fighting climate change
Guterres going to G20 summit with messages of global financial reform, fighting climate change
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1/09/2023 10:09:21 AM
UN working on facilitation of Russian food and fertiliser exports  The world body continues to push for Russian food and fertiliser exports as a parallel agreement with the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which allows Ukrainian agricultural exports from Black Sea ports, said a UN spokesman. UN Conference on Trade and Development chief Rebeca Grynspan and her team are continuing to "work full steam" ahead to ensure the full implementation of the memorandum of understanding on Russian food and fertiliser exports, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesma...
UN working on facilitation of Russian food and fertiliser exports
UN working on facilitation of Russian food and fertiliser exports
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27/05/2023 10:27:36 AM
Guterres asking G20 for pact to hold down global warming; UN experts warn of food crisis for India As a panel of UN experts warned that India's food production could see a massive fall if global warming went unchecked, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that he was asking the G20 for a pact to keep warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade. "In India, rice production can decrease from 10 per cent to 30 per cent, whereas maize production can decrease from 25 per cent to 70 per cent assuming a range of temperature increase from 1 degree centigrade to 4 degrees centigrade," ...
Guterres asking G20 for pact to hold down global warming; UN experts warn of food crisis for India
Guterres asking G20 for pact to hold down global warming; UN experts warn of food crisis for India
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21/03/2023 9:20:17 AM
Guterres, Zelensky call for extension of Black Sea Grain Initiative Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have called for the extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which expires on March 18. This is the UN chief's third visit to Kiev since Russia launched its ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. On July 22, 2022, Russia and Ukraine separately signed a document in Istanbul with Turkey and the UN to allow Ukraine and Russia to export grain and fertilizer to ensure suppl...
Guterres, Zelensky call for extension of Black Sea Grain Initiative
Guterres, Zelensky call for extension of Black Sea Grain Initiative
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9/03/2023 5:00:58 PM
Guterres calls on G20 finance ministers to find 'bold' solutions to debt crisis UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is asking the G20 finance ministers meeting in Bengaluru to take "bold" steps to reform the international development banks and find ways to solve the debt crisis facing several developing countries, according to his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. "The Secretary-General calls on the G20 finance ministers to be bold in their efforts to reform the multilateral development banks and in the effort to find solutions to pressing debt challeng...
Guterres calls on G20 finance ministers to find 'bold' solutions to debt crisis
Guterres calls on G20 finance ministers to find 'bold' solutions to debt crisis
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25/02/2023 11:06:39 AM
India pays its 2023 dues of $30.54 mn to UN India has paid its 2023 annual contribution of $30.54 million to the UN budget, according to a UN spokesperson. India was among the 43 countries on its "honour roll" so far for having paid their assessments to the budget, Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said on Monday. India's contribution was received on Friday according to the UN. India's share is assessed at 1.044 per cent of the total budget of $3.217 billion. Altho...
India pays its 2023 dues of $30.54 mn to UN
India pays its 2023 dues of $30.54 mn to UN
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14/02/2023 11:53:55 AM
Antonio Guterres calls on G20 to come up with relief package for Global South Warning that poverty and hunger are rising around the world, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the G20 nations led by India to come up with a package offering investments and debt relief to nations of the Global South to help achieve the UN's development goals. Unveiling his proposal for a 'New Agenda for Peace' during a briefing on his priorities for this year, Guterres told the General Assembly on Monday that by the time of the summit on the UN's Sustainable...
Antonio Guterres calls on G20 to come up with relief package for Global South
Antonio Guterres calls on G20 to come up with relief package for Global South
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7/02/2023 9:41:47 AM
Global output growth to fall to 1.9% in 2023 from 3%: UN report  The world output growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3 per cent in 2022 to 1.9 per cent in 2023, marking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades, a United Nation's (UN) report has said. It has listed a series of severe and mutually reinforcing shocks - the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and resulting food and energy crises, surging inflation, debt tightening, as well as the climate emergency behind the expected deceleration in global output growth ...
Global output growth to fall to 1.9% in 2023 from 3%: UN report
Global output growth to fall to 1.9% in 2023 from 3%: UN report
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27/01/2023 9:31:55 AM
Jaishankar discusses India's G20 leadership with Guterres External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has discussed with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres working together on G20, which is being led by India. Jaishankar tweeted after their meeting here on Wednesday that they "exchanged views on working together during India's G20 Presidency". India became President of the G20 group of major industrialised and emerging economies as the world faces a double whammy of crises from the fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and th...
Jaishankar discusses India's G20 leadership with Guterres
Jaishankar discusses India's G20 leadership with Guterres
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15/12/2022 12:04:34 PM
Analysis-COP27 loss and damage fund heralds 'new dawn for climate justice' Agreement at the COP27 climate talks to set up a "loss and damage" fund marks a milestone in the long fight to get help for poor communities on the frontlines of global warming, said officials and campaigners who had pressed hard for its creation. The two-week talks in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, hampered by global geopolitical tensions, ended early on Sunday with a deal to establish a new fund to help vulnerable countries pay their rising costs of climate damage...
Analysis-COP27 loss and damage fund heralds 'new dawn for climate justice'
Analysis-COP27 loss and damage fund heralds 'new dawn for climate justice'
Source: Reuters
25/11/2022 5:24:50 PM
United Nations chief calls for reaching consensus on climate actions at COP27 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on countries to take climate actions instead of "finger-pointing" at the ongoing UN climate change conference. He made the remarks on Thursday during a press briefing at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is scheduled to close on Friday in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm El-Sheikh. Guterres said that COP27 will come to an end in...
United Nations chief calls for reaching consensus on climate actions at COP27
United Nations chief calls for reaching consensus on climate actions at COP27
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18/11/2022 10:52:45 AM
Global partnership needed to overcome health challenges, pandemics, say health experts  The three-day World Health Summit (WHS) 2022 was held in Berlin from October 16 to 18 under the patronage of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The theme of this year's summit was 'Finding Solutions for Global Health'. At the summit, WHO's Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan informed the gathering of the lowest link about 'Social Communication' established by WHO for health related services and information related to epidemics. The WHS 2022 aimed to bri...
Global partnership needed to overcome health challenges, pandemics, say health experts
Global partnership needed to overcome health challenges, pandemics, say health experts
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20/10/2022 11:38:50 AM
Antonio Guterres visiting India from Tuesday, to commemorate 75th anniversary of India at UN, pay tribute to 26/11 victims UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres is to visit India starting Tuesday to commemorate India's 75-year partnership with the UN during which India's contribution to fighting climate change by advocating lifestyle changes will be highlighted, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced on Monday. India's Ministry of External Affairs said in New Delhi that Guterres will start his visit by paying tributes at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai to the victims of the 26/11 terror ...
Antonio Guterres visiting India from Tuesday, to commemorate 75th anniversary of India at UN, pay tribute to 26/11 victims
Antonio Guterres visiting India from Tuesday, to commemorate 75th anniversary of India at UN, pay tribute to 26/11 victims
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18/10/2022 11:36:03 AM
Philippine president to focus on food, energy, climate change at UN General Assembly Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos left for New York on Sunday to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, with his priority focus on food security, energy and climate change. Marcos is expected to deliver the Philippines' statement on Tuesday. "I will outline our expectations of the United Nations, the role our country will play, and our contributions in strengthening the international system," he said in his departure speech....
Philippine president to focus on food, energy, climate change at UN General Assembly
Philippine president to focus on food, energy, climate change at UN General Assembly
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18/09/2022 11:20:05 AM
S. Jaishankar to visit US from September 18 to 28 for UNGA, bilateral meets External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar will be visiting the US from September 18 to 28, during which he will be participating in the 77th UN General Assembly session. During his visit to New York from September 18 to 24, he will be leading the Indian delegation for the High Level Week at the UNGA session, with the theme "A Watershed Moment: Transformative Solutions to Interlocking Challenges", the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. In keeping with India'...
S. Jaishankar to visit US from September 18 to 28 for UNGA, bilateral meets
S. Jaishankar to visit US from September 18 to 28 for UNGA, bilateral meets
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18/09/2022 10:05:32 AM
Promoting sustainable development needs working with young people: UN chief  Promoting sustainable development and building a better future need working with the young people, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. The UN chief on Thursday made the remarks in a video message to the World Youth Development Forum, organised by the All-China Youth Federation and being held in Beijing from July 21 to 23 under the theme "For a Shared Future: Promoting Sustainable Development with Youth and for Youth". In the video message released by his press of...
Promoting sustainable development needs working with young people: UN chief
Promoting sustainable development needs working with young people: UN chief
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22/07/2022 12:18:30 PM