"MARITIME TRANSPORT"

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The first shipment of humanitarian food assistance under the Black Sea Grain Initiative is expected to berth shortly at Ukraine’s Yuzhny (Pivdennyi) port, said a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED

Frederick Kenney, interim Coordinator for the UN at the Joint Coordination Centre for the Black Sea Initiative, said, “We are off with a very good start.” UNIFEED

Press conference by Frederick Kenney, interim Coordinator for the United Nations at the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) for the Black Sea Initiative on safe transportation of grain, fertilizer and foodstuffs from Ukraine.

The five-day UN Ocean Conference ended today with more than 150 countries collectively agreeing to scale up science-based and innovative actions to address the ocean emergency. UNIFEED

Informal comments to the media by Mona Juul, Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations, and Harold Adlai Agyeman, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations, following the vote on a resolution on maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea. 

Adopting resolution 2634 (2022), Security Council calls on Gulf of Guinea countries to criminalize piracy, armed robbery at sea under domestic laws.

Amid stalemate, acute suffering in Syria, Special Envoy tells Security Council political solution ‘only way out’.

Noon briefing by Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said, "Regional integration should be part of the ecosystem of trade in the world, not for more protectionism, but for a more intelligent integration and more resilient integration of the developing world in the global economy." UNIFEED