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Electing Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid President of Seventy-Sixth Session, General Assembly selects Main Committee Bureaus, Economic and Social Council members.

Electing Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid President of Seventy-Sixth Session, General Assembly selects Main Committee Bureaus, Economic and Social Council members.

Stressing no country is exempt from corruption, speakers in General Assembly call for greater collaboration to tackle menace, as special session continues.

Stressing no country is exempt from corruption, speakers in General Assembly call for greater collaboration to tackle menace, as special session continues.

Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told journalists that “to say from the outset” that the landing in Minsk of a Ryanair jet flying from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday and the subsequent arrest of blogger Raman Pratasevich, “is a forced landing, to condemn it and to introduce sanctions without any investigation; this kind of behaviour is absolutely irresponsible.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres pledged that he would continue to represent the interests of all Cypriots in future talks on the divided Mediterranean island, as an informal effort to break the impasse ended without finding common ground. UNTV CH

A fresh United Nations-led bid to seek to resolve decades of tensions in Cyprus was due to get under way in Geneva on Tuesday, with Secretary-General António Guterres “realistic” about the chances of making progress, his spokesperson said. UNTV CH

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The international community should work together “towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response” to build a more robust global health architecture that will protect future generations, world leaders said in a commentary published today in several newspapers around the world. WHO

With more than 1.5 Million lives lost to COVID-19, world leaders in General Assembly demand urgent action to guarantee equitable distribution of life-saving vaccines.