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A group of 46 countries said it was “deeply concerned over Russia’s announcement that it has detained a Wall Street Journal reporter” and protested “Russian efforts to limit and intimidate the media.” UNIFEED

A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office commented the long-awaited trial of human rights defenders in Greece, “Trials like this are deeply concerning because they criminalize life-saving work and set a dangerous precedent.” UNTV CH

All Inclusive: the Campaign for Refugee Education, calls for the inclusion of refugees in national education systems from the start of humanitarian emergencies, through protracted displacement situations and in longer-term development planning. UNHCR

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Security Council, "The Russian military has turned the territory of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia power plant, into a war zone. This is a fact,” adding that “Russia should unconditionally stop nuclear blackmail.” UNIFEED

According to UN Agencies, an estimated 13 million people are waking up hungry every day across the Horn of Africa, as the region grapples with severe drought, and nearly 5.5 million children are threatened by acute malnutrition. UNTV CH / BROLL

President of the France, Emmanuel Macron, and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, today broke ground for the WHO Academy’s campus in the French city of Lyon. WHO

Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told journalists that “to say from the outset” that the landing in Minsk of a Ryanair jet flying from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday and the subsequent arrest of blogger Raman Pratasevich, “is a forced landing, to condemn it and to introduce sanctions without any investigation; this kind of behaviour is absolutely irresponsible.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres pledged that he would continue to represent the interests of all Cypriots in future talks on the divided Mediterranean island, as an informal effort to break the impasse ended without finding common ground. UNTV CH

A fresh United Nations-led bid to seek to resolve decades of tensions in Cyprus was due to get under way in Geneva on Tuesday, with Secretary-General António Guterres “realistic” about the chances of making progress, his spokesperson said. UNTV CH

The international community should work together “towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response” to build a more robust global health architecture that will protect future generations, world leaders said in a commentary published today in several newspapers around the world. WHO