PRESS CONFERENCE

Press Conference by Shantanu Mukherjee (Director, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)) and Hamid Rashid (Lead Author Chief, Global Economic Monitoring Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, DESA) on the World Economic Situation and Prospects Report.

Briefing by Hans Grundberg, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, on the situation in Yemen.

Press conference by Francesco Rocco, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, on the upcoming International Migration Review Forum.

Briefing by Arif Husain, World Food Programme's Chief Economist, and Rein Paulsen, the Food and Agriculture Organization's Director of Emergencies, on the launch of the 2022 Global Report on Food Crises.

Briefing by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Representative and President of the Security Council for the month of May, on the Council's programme of work for May.

Briefing by Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), and Salous Klaus Chilima, Vice-President of Malawi, on the launch of ILO's report on Least Developed Countries (LDC).

Briefing by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic, Veronika Remisova, along with President of the UN Habitat Assembly, Martha Delgado, and UN-Habitat Executive Director, Maimunah Mohd Sharif on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda.

Briefing by Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), on the UNDRR's Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022.

Briefing by Collen Vixen Kelapile, ECOSOC President, on Financing for Development Forum the High-level political Forum on Sustainable Development.

Briefing by Dario José Mejia Montalvo, Chair-elect of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Leader of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, and RoseAnne Archibald, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations, on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples.