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The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) urges advanced economies to change course in their monetary and fiscal policies to avert global recession. UNTV CH

“Without peace we will not achieve Zero Hunger and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said at the Agriculture Ministers Meeting of the G20 held this week in Bali, Indonesia. FAO

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the General Assembly’s General Debate is convening “at a dramatic moment” as “crises are growing, and the situation in the area of international security is deteriorating rapidly.” UNIFEED

The United Nations received pledges and commitments “sufficient to start the FSO Safer salvage operation,” David Gressly, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

Asking for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told the General Assembly’s General Debate that his country supports “all efforts to reduce the economic impacts of this crisis”, but it does “not believe that the best way is to adopt unilateral and selective sanctions, that are inconsistent with International Law.” UNIFEED

Opening the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) Moment in New York, UN Secretary-General said the meeting happens “at a critical point" in the world and urged countries to take more action. UNIFEED

The Secretary-General of UNCTAD, Rebeca Grynspan, who has been leading the UN Task Team on facilitating access to food and fertilizer from Ukraine and the Russian Federation, said the Black Sea agreements were “essential” in making food affordable for “millions of people in the world,” but added that “prices at the domestic level have not yet seen the decrease that we have seen in the international markets.” UNIFEED

Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary took oath of office today as the President of the 77th United Nations General Assembly. His presidency will highlight “solutions through solidarity, sustainability and science.” UNIFEED

Upon his return from Ukraine, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the physical integrity of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant “has been violated, not once but several, several times.” IAEA

The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined significantly in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported today. UNIFEED