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The IMF will remain committed to help members secure a durable exit from the COVID-19 crisis, minimize its long-term scarring, and build forward a stronger, fairer, and greener economy spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters today. IMF

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths said he is “extremely concerned about the impact of the decision from the United States to designate Ansar Allah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.” UNIFEED

“The main objective of the United Nations in 2021 is to build a true global coalition for carbon neutrality,” the UN secretary-General said at the One Planet Summit for Biodiversity on Monday. GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE

The WHO urged “countries that have contracted more vaccines than they will need” and those who control the global supply of the Covid-19 vaccines “to donate and release them to COVAX immediately, which is ready today to roll them out quickly. " WHO

The World Bank Group said it expects the global economy to expand by 4 percent this year, if a COVID-19 vaccine rollout becomes widespread throughout 2021. WORLD BANK

Days before Sunday’s election, the Security Council has approved Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ proposal “for the temporary redeployment, for a two-month period, of two infantry companies and two military utility helicopters from the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to assist the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), a UN spokesperson said today. UNIFEED

Speaking from the floor of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commended “the no-nonsense, steady, compassionate and wise guiding hand of Chancellor Merkel and her government” in their COVID-19 pandemic response. BUNDESTAG TV

UN chief Antonio Guterres told reporters in New York that the tragedy of COVID-19 “has also given us an unexpected opportunity for a reset,” adding that COVID relief and recovering investments “can spur a green transition.” UNIFEED

In his opening remarks to the Climate Ambition Summit, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on all leaders worldwide to declare a “State of Climate Emergency” in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached, adding “Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency?” UNIFEED

In a virtual setting Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund delivered remarks at the Singapore Fintech Festival on reimagining payments for the digital era today. IMF