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The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, presented his annual report to Member States at the 76th World Health Assembly, saying that the end of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern is “a moment of relief and reflection.” WHO

Plastic pollution could reduce by 80 percent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies, according to a new report by UN Environment Programme (UNEP). UNIFEED / FILE

In Kingston, Jamaica, the Secretary-General, António Guterres, met with Prime Minister Andrew Holness to discuss a wide range of issues, including the country’s leadership in efforts to reform the global financial architecture. UNIFEED

The IMF warned of negative consequences to the global economy if US leadership is unable to resolve its political impasse over negotiations to extend the debt ceiling, spokesperson Julie Kozack told reporters Thursday in Washington, DC. IMF

General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said it was time “to get serious about debt relief in Middle-income countries, which host the majority of the extreme poor in the world,’ and called for the international community “to go beyond GDP as the primary measure of development.” UNIFEED

The President of the General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, said that while the “darkest days” of COVID-19 have passed, questions just continue to linger, “When will the next pandemic break out? Where and how will it hit humanity? What can we do to prevent it? How should we ensure that it causes the least possible damage to our societies?” UNIFEED

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, told the Security Council that “full compliance with human rights is the best antidote to the inequalities, unaddressed grievances and exclusion which are often at the root of instability and conflict.” UNIFEED

Around 90 per cent of adolescent girls and young women do not use the internet in low-income countries, while their male peers are twice as likely to be online, according to a new UNICEF analysis issued on International Day of Girls in ICT. UNICEF

Speaking at a Security Council meeting presided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in violation of the United Nations Charter and international law, is causing massive suffering and devastation to the country and its people, and adding to the global economic dislocation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.” UNIFEED

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, said that negative trends in weather patterns may continue until the 2060s “independently of our success in climate mitigation.” UNTV CH