"ANTONIO GUTERRES"

The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for greater funding for agriculture to ensure there’s available and accessible food in crisis situations, noting that conflict “remains the single greatest driver of hunger.” FAO

Secretary-General António Guterres told Security Council members that when they “fail to reach consensus, hungry people pay a high price.” UNIFEED

Addressing at the International Migration Review Forum, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “the Global Compact speaks to the heart of the mission of the United Nations. It is a global response to a global phenomenon for which we need to be much better prepared.” UNIFEED

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

Secretary-General, António Guterres, said, “there is no effective solution” to the current global food crisis “without reintegrating Ukraine’s food production, as well as the food and fertilizer produced by Russia and Belarus, into world markets -- despite the war.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday he was deeply concerned about the risk of hunger becoming widespread because of the impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security. UNIS VIENNA

The United Nations' Secretary-General warned on Wednesday that “there isn’t a moment to lose” to stop the SAFER oil tanker, a rusting ship near the Yemeni coast, from spilling more than 1 million barrels of oil into the Red Sea. UNIFEED

On the second day of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ visit to Moldova, he commended the Moldovan people for their generosity and solidarity towards those fleeing the war in Ukraine as he met with the country’s president, Maia Sandu, pledging to scale up the United Nations response to the humanitarian crisis. UNIFEED

Marking his first visit to Chișinău on the 30th anniversary of Moldova’s membership to the UN, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres thanked Moldova, the “small country with a big heart” for opening its doors to almost half a million Ukrainian refugees, by far the most of any country as proportion of its own population. UNIFEED

A day after visiting Maiduguri, in embattled Borno State, Secretary-General António Guterres today (4 May) met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja and said, “violence continues to cast the shadow of death over so many Nigerians,” but added that he “came out of Borno with the sense that Nigeria is able to defeat this threat.” UNIFEED