"IVAN DUQUE MARQUEZ"

Today in Lisbon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, addressed the opening ceremony of the 2022 Ocean Conference, along with the leaders of the two co-hosting nations – Portugal and Kenya and warned that we have taken the ocean for granted, and today we face what he would call an “Ocean Emergency”, adding that "we must now turn the tide." UNIFEED

Colombian President Ivan Duque said it was a “moral duty” for the international community “to strengthen multilateralism in the area of health and to make progress in vaccine distribution equity.” UNIFEED

Make bold environmental action central focus of post pandemic economic recovery, speakers urge as General Assembly holds first ever global biodiversity summit.

In a video message, Colombian President Iván Duque told the General Assembly’s General Debate that the “dictatorial regime” of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro’s “supports itself with the profits of the drug trade; it shelters terrorists; and is a constant threat to democracy in the region and the whole world.” UNIFEED

Iván Duque Márquez, President of the Republic of Colombia, addresses the general debate of the 75th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 22 – 29 September 2020).

World leaders adopt Declaration promising safer, more resilient world for future generations, as General Assembly marks United Nations Seventy-Fifth Anniversary.

The SDG Moment, convened by Secretary-General António Guterres, brings together representatives of Governments, civil society, local authorities, international organizations and the private sector with a view to generating a renewed sense of urgency, ambition, accountability and transformative possibility as the world embarks on a Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals.

Iván Duque Márquez, President of the Republic of Colombia, briefs press on the situation in the country.

After meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres, Colombian President Iván Duque told reporters that Colombia and the United Nations have finalized negotiations on a framework working agreement for the period 2020 – 2023, based on “three central axes; peace with legality, attention to migrant populations, and the implementation in our country of the Sustainable Development Goals.” UNIFEED

The President of Colombia, Iván Duque, told the General Assembly that his government "is in possession of blunt and incontrovertible proof that corroborates the dictatorship’s support for criminal groups and narco-terrorists operating in Venezuela with the goal of attacking Colombia.” UNIFEED