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Black Sea Initiative exports top 30 million tonnes from Ukraine, as talks continue over renewal

·May 14, 2023·1 min read

That was the message conveyed by the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, Martin Griffiths, to a meeting held on Thursday in Istanbul, to discuss the future of the Initiative, with senior official from the signatories to the deal, Russia, and Ukraine, together with the UN and Türkiye, which also mediated the...

World Tuberculosis Day: WHO ramps up initiative to combat killer disease

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·March 27, 2023·1 min read

On the eve of World Tuberculosis Day, WHO announced that it will expand the scope of a five-year-old initiative in efforts to eradicate one of the world’s top infectious killers by 2030. TB mainly affects the lungs, but it is preventable, treatable and curable. Although deaths have dropped by nearly...

Extreme weather: UN global early warning initiative ‘fast-tracked into action’

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·March 22, 2023·3 min read

UN chief António Guterres convened an Advisory Panel of top UN agency officials which met for the first time to inject more “political, technical and financial clout to ensure that Early Warnings for All becomes a reality for everyone, everywhere”, said WMO in a press release. Tuesday’s panel included development...

Black Sea Grain Initiative extended on deadline day

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·March 18, 2023·1 min read

The announcement was made in a Note to Correspondents, released by the UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson’s office on Saturday, which emphasized that the Initiative allows for the “facilitation of the safe navigation for the exports of grain and related foodstuffs and fertilizers, including ammonia, from designated Ukrainian seaports.” Following the invasion...

UN chief welcomes renewal of Black Sea Grain Initiative |

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·November 17, 2022·2 min read

More than 11.1 million tonnes of essential foodstuffs have been shipped as part of the agreement involving Türkiye, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations, since it was signed on 22 July. ‘Deeply moved’ Speaking from Cairo, where Mr. Guterres was en route from the G20 summit in Bali to the...

UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ by stalled Black Sea Grain Initiative |

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·October 30, 2022·1 min read

On Sunday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, in a statement for the Secretary-General, that Mr. Guterres has decided to delay his departure for the Arab League Summit in Algiers by a day to focus on the issue. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, mountains of grains built...