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    Awareness campaign a must for checking drug abuse, says UN chief

    26 Jun 2021

    The world’s drug problem remains an urgent challenge that threatens to exacerbate COVID-19 pandemic impacts and hinder a healthy and inclusive recovery, warned the UN Secretary General ahead of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

    UN chief stresses on humanity, says when egoism wins, everyone loses

    22 Jan 2022

    Warning of a "five-alarm global fire" threatening humanity, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a philosophical call for the restoration of humanism at a time of the emergence of "the twilight of shared values."

    UN chief urges major Afghan aid increase, unfreezing assets

    27 Jan 2022

    China and Russia reiterated their calls for unfreezing Afghan assets, while US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the Biden administration is examining "various options to ease the liquidity crunch.”

    UN chief to meet Putin and Zelensky next week

    23 Apr 2022

    Guterres will head to Moscow on Tuesday and meet Putin as well as having a working meeting and lunch with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Eri Kaneko, Guterres' associate spokesperson, told a news briefing in New York on Friday.

    Putin, Guterres agree on key Ukraine evacuation

    27 Apr 2022

    UN spokesman said the Russian leader and UN chief discussed "proposals for humanitarian assistance and evacuation of civilians from conflict zones, namely in relation to the situation in Mariupol.”

    UN chief Guterres delivers ‘wrong speech’ at COP27

    09 Nov 2022

    UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered an unexpected moment of levity at the COP27 climate conference on Wednesday, reading the beginning of the wrong speech before realising, chuckling and starting again with a different opening line.

    Guterres urges implementation of peace agreement in Ethiopia

    14 Nov 2022

    The parties to the conflict have agreed to promote unhindered humanitarian access for all in need in Tigray and neighbouring regions, and facilitate the movement of humanitarian aid workers, the AU said.

    VIDEO: UN chief ‘warmly welcomes’ departure of first Ukraine grain ship

    01 Aug 2022

    The sailing was made possible after Türkiye and the United Nations brokered a grain-and-fertiliser export agreement between Russia and Ukraine last month.

    UN’s Guterres, Türkiye’s Erdogan to meet Zelensky in Ukraine

    18 Aug 2022

    The meeting also comes a day after the head of NATO said it was "urgent" that the UN's atomic watchdog be allowed to inspect Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where a Russian occupation has sparked concerns of a nuclear accident.

    UN chief expected to disclose talks on Ukraine grain exports

    18 May 2022

    Ukraine, a major agricultural producer, used to export most of its goods through seaports but since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion it has been forced to export by train via its western border or via its small Danube river ports.

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