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Colleagues, thank you, Commissioner Lenarčič, for convening this event on responding earlier, faster and more cost-effectively to growing global food insecurity. That this event is taking place just...
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Virtual 4 October 2021 As delivered This has been an important event— thank you all for your contributions. I will close by stressing urgent action in three areas. First, funding. We urgently need to...
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As delivered Thanks, Kate. Thank you for moderating this event and to all those present in this important high-level event. Before I go into my prepared remarks, I just want to say that the main...
23 September, 9:00 AM – 11 AM EST, Virtual As delivered I will not cite my prepared remarks today, for what has been powerful has been the passion and the reality and the truth of what we have heard...
As delivered Thank you very much for inviting me to this meeting and chapeau, of course, to the European Commission, France – Mr. Le Drian – and Germany – Heiko Maas. It’s very difficult to have to...
As delivered Thank you Nima. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank the European Union and the Governments of Sweden and Switzerland for hosting this important event. It has been almost...
I am releasing US$45 million in life-saving support from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund to help prevent Afghanistan’s health-care system from collapse. Medicines, medical supplies and fuel...
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As delivered Thank you, Madam President. I hope you can all hear me. I returned last week from a visit to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, my first mission to the region in my new capacity. The visit...
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, here and virtually, thank you. I think in gathering here today we have demonstrated the solidarity that is needed with the people of Afghanistan and our...
Geneva, 13 September 2021 As delivered Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Last week, as the Secretary-General has already mentioned, I travelled to Afghanistan. I met with the de facto authorities,...
As prepared Thank you, Heba. And thank you Minister Maas and Minister Cleverley for your leadership. I’m very grateful to the Governments of the United Kingdom and Germany for cohosting this event. ...
Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria New York, 24 August 2021 As delivered Thank you very much, Mr. President, and greetings to Geir [Pedersen, Special Envoy for...
Thank you very much, Mr. President. And thank you, Khaled. So, I am very pleased to join you today on what is, of course, quite a familiar topic, although from a rather different point of view. And...
Monday, 9 August 2021 I am extremely concerned by the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan where more than 1,000 people have been killed or injured due to indiscriminate attacks against civilians...
Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to be here with you. And it goes without saying, as the Secretary-General has just said, 2020 was an extraordinary year. COVID-19...
Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia New York, 2 July 2021 – As delivered Mr. President, thank you. Just over two weeks ago on 15 June, we briefed the Council on...
(New York, 25 June 2021): Reports that three Médecins Sans Frontières staff members have been killed in Tigray are outrageous and saddening. I extend my sincere condolences to the victims’ families,...
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United Nations Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ramesh at Rajasingham, remarks at ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment event on Transition from Relief to Development:...
as delivered New York, 23 June 2021 Mr. President, thank you. Further to the Secretary-General’s remarks and his latest report, I will focus my briefing today on five points: first, the ongoing...
(New York, 23 June 2021): I am deeply disturbed by reports of bombing yesterday that killed and wounded civilians in a market in Togoga, Tigray. I am equally alarmed by reports of armed forces...