"GENERAL ASSEMBLY"

Cooperation in tackling COVID-19 key to averting lengthy global recession, speakers say, as Economic and Social Council opens annual financing for Development Forum.

Cooperation in tackling COVID-19 key to averting lengthy global recession, speakers say, as Economic and Social Council opens annual financing for Development Forum.

Briefing by Amy Quantrill, Deputy Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

Secretary-General António Guterres noted that just 10 countries account for around 75 percent of global COVID-19 vaccinations, while other countries have yet to start. He said, “a global vaccine gap threatens everyone’s health and wellbeing.” UNIFEED

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has designated European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet as Goodwill Ambassador on the International Day of Human Space Flight. FAO

Briefing by Amy Quantrill, Deputy Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

Briefing by Amy Quantrill, Deputy Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

10th Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum on the theme, "A Decade of Action: Building a Resilient Recovery".

Briefing by Amy Quantrill, Deputy Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

At a virtual event remembering the victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said preventing history from repeating itself requires countering the “hate-driven movements that have become a transnational threat.” UNIFEED