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Taking part in the Biodiversity Summit, Prince Charles, heir to the British throne said he is working with a “coalition of the willing” to put nature, people and planet at the heart of the economy. French President Macron called for “the fight against environmental crime,” while Brazil’s President Bolsonaro “strongly” rejected “international greed" towards Amazon.” UNIFEED

Rural women make up 43 percent of the agricultural labour force and, compared to men, are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 due to their work in the informal sector and their lack of access to productive resources, services, technologies, markets and finances. But when women are given equal access as men, they can be incredibly resilient to shocks, and be able to support their families and communities. IFAD

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said that delegations representing the government of the National Accord and the Libyan Arab Armed Forces and comprising of police, military officers have concluded two days of security and military talks. The discussions were marked by spirited responsibility, transparency and mutual trust. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it is in every “national and economic self-interest to work together to massively expand access to tests and treatments, and to support a vaccine as a global public good -- a “people’s vaccine” available and affordable for everyone, everywhere,” and noted that the ACT-Accelerator , with its COVAX Facility, “is the vehicle to get us there.” UNIFEED

“Our existence on this planet depends entirely on our ability to protect the natural world around us,” the President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir said at the opening of the Biodiversity Summit, where activists and senior UN officials are calling for urgent action on biodiversity for sustainable development. UNIFEED

Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, told the Security Council that “we are again at a pivotal moment in the search for peace as a convergence of destabilizing factors threatens to pull Israelis and Palestinians further towards a one-state reality of perpetual occupation and conflict.” UNIFEED

Hailing Israel’s recent peace agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “for far too long the Palestinians wielded a veto on peace between Israel and the broader Arab world” and "all progress was halted and held hostage by completely unrealistic Palestinian demands.” UNIFEED

Following a high-level event called “Financing the 2030 Agenda in the era of COVID-19 and Beyond” the UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres told reporters “we must stop the virus in its tracks, respond, recover and strengthen our systems for the future.” UNIFEED

U Kyaw Tint Swe, Minister of the Office of the State Counsellor of Myanmar said, “Efforts to prevent ARSA and its supporters in the camps of Cox’s Bazar from hampering the bilateral repatriation process must be enhanced as such activities pose a risk to both Bangladesh and Myanmar.” UNIFEED

Speaking at a press conference in Juba, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, David Shearer, said delays in implementing the peace agreement, signed in 2018, risks delaying elections beyond the agreed three-year time frame. Fresh life needs to be urgently breathed into the peace process to avoid this outcome.UNMISS