Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to open the 2021 Chief and Directors of Missions Support Conference.

United Nations peace operations are one of the most effective tools we have to maintain international peace and security, and to create the conditions for sustainable development.

Providing the right operational support for our field missions is essential for the people we serve, and to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

I thank you all for your work, particularly during the past difficult 18 months.

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Excellency President Sergio Mattarella,

Distinguished speakers and guests,

It is a pleasure to address the 2021 G20 Interfaith Forum. My thanks to the organizers for inviting me to join your deliberations. 

Our world today is in crisis.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend societies across the world. Unequal access to life-saving vaccines is exacerbating this impact.

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to join you today at the Ministerial Segment of the 2021 Global Education Meeting.

We stand here today at the cusp of a new era for global education cooperation. We know that by working more coherently together, our collective efforts will be more effective in accompanying countries to accelerate towards SDG4 in this Decade for Action.

Thank you, thank you very much Jeff,
 
As we wrap up an incredible Food Systems Pre-Summit event this afternoon, it is really a great pleasure to join with His Excellency, our Foreign Minister Di Maio. I would like to share a few words of what we have accomplished and what we see as a way forward.
 
Over the past three days, the world has gathered together – both virtually and in person here in Rome – around our shared vision of the future: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
 

Thank you very much and welcome to all our friends in the media.

This is really an incredible day that we are witnessing, that we all come together in person, and, of course, virtually. But it is two years after a really robust process – we didn't imagine that we would have COVID-19, but when it did come it seemed to have galvanized the solidarity around a very important issue: food.

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