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Security Council weighs benefits, drawbacks of video-teleconference meetings, other pandemic-era innovations, in annual debate on working methods.

Despite a massive 65 percent increase in migrants sending money home via mobile transfers in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of their rural family members struggle to access mobile banking services which could help lift them out of poverty. IFAD

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said, “The European Union remains committed to United Nations and to the rules based in multilateralism. The core of our strategy is to protect, to reform, and to build multilateralism that is fit for purpose.” UNIFEED

Day 2 of the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS to undertake a comprehensive review of the progress on the commitments made in the 2016 Political Declaration towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and how the response, in its social, economic and political dimensions, continues to contribute to progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the global health goal.

World leaders in General Assembly adopt political declaration pledging urgent, transformative action to stop global AIDS epidemic by 2030.

World leaders in General Assembly adopt political declaration pledging urgent, transformative action to stop global AIDS epidemic by 2030.

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.

"As we strive for net zero emissions, we need all hands-on deck,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the opening of the sixth Mission Innovation Ministerial meeting on Wednesday. UNIFEED

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