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Asked about the negotiations to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, said that he “can't say that the UN has not been undertaking efforts in the right direction, on the contrary”, but “there has been practically no result.” UNIFEED

Marking the International Mother Earth Day, the President of the General Assembly said, “As humans, we are latecomers, new tenants of this world. Tenants with short term leases but with particular responsibilities.” UNIFEED

Population anxieties are widespread and governments are increasingly adopting policies aimed at raising, lowering or maintaining fertility rates, according to the UN Population Fund’s (UNFPA) State of World Population report, released today. UNIFEED/FILE

Addressing the opening of the 22nd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the UN Secretary-General said that Indigenous Peoples live on the frontlines of the climate emergency but also hold many of the solutions to the climate crisis and are the guardians of the world’s biodiversity. UNIFEED

Global debt levels are rising faster than predicted, with the bulk of future boosts coming from China and the US the IMF said today. IMF

The IMF announced today in a press briefing that fiscal policy is returning to normal three years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. IMF

According to the International Organization for Migration, with nearly half a million Venezuelan nationals, Ecuador hosts the third largest Venezuelan migrant population worldwide, after Colombia and Peru. IOM

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council that he remains “deeply troubled by continued Israeli settlement expansion”, warning that it can “further entrench the occupation, fuel tensions, and systematically erode the viability of a Palestinian State as part of a two-State solution.” UNIFEED

A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve its global target of reducing sodium intake by 30 percent by 2025. WHO

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, warned the Security Council that the country “under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world regarding women’s rights.” UNIFEED