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General Assembly adopts $3.4 billion programme budget for 2023, approves permanent shift to annual cycle, concluding main part of Seventy-Seventh Session.

Despite pandemic, climate crises, global goals in social protection, education still within reach, Economic and Social Council President tells General Assembly.

The IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva set out the Fund’s Global Policy Agenda during her press briefing. Georgieva’s overarching message was that fiscal policy and monetary policy must go hand in hand, as the world faces continued and increasing economic hardship. IMF

As the global economy is suffering turbulent times, the IMF has warned Governments that they must reduce budget deficits incurred during the pandemic. The warning comes as energy and food prices soar, causing extreme poverty worldwide. IMF

The global economy is slowing amid continued tight financing conditions, announced Vitor Gaspar, Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF on Wednesday in Washington, DC. IMF

Afghanistan: no other country in the world where women and girls have “so rapidly” been deprived of their fundamental rights “purely because of gender,” UN-appointed expert told Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

Secretary-General António Guterres urged governments to tax oil and gas companies' “excessive profits” and said it was “immoral” for these companies “to be making record profits from this energy crisis on the backs of the poorest people and communities and at a massive cost to the climate.” UNIFEED

Economic and Social Council grants 209 non-governmental organizations consultative status, adopts seven resolutions, six decisions, as management segment resumes.

The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Christian Schmidt, told the Security Council that “more than 26 years” since the signing of the Dayton Accord, Bosnia and Herzegovina “remains a country traumatized by war,” and added that “the desire to keep peace is present amongst Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks and others.” UNIFEED

Questions pertaining to crime prevention, criminal justice, among texts adopted by Economic and Social Council.