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This afternoon, in Lisbon, the Secretary-General held a brief stakeout; this is how he responded to a question on Ukraine and the UN efforts regarding the world food insecurity situation:
 

Dear representatives of the media, welcome.

I am pleased to be in Lisbon to help launch the United Nations Ocean Conference, generously hosted by Kenya and Portugal.

And I feel that very personally today. 

Standing here, my mind goes back to the 1998 World Expo with a focus on the ocean that Portugal hosted while I was Prime Minister.  And the present Prime Minister was the Minister in charge of organizing the Expo.

Almost a quarter century later, this conference comes at a critical moment.

Dear President, dear Minister, dear friends,

Let me start by just following on the words of the Portuguese President and to apologize, on behalf of my generation, to your generation, in relation to the state of the oceans, the state of biodiversity and the state of climate change.

In my generation, those that were politically responsible -that is my case-, we were slow, or sometimes unwilling to recognize that things were getting worse and worse in these three dimensions: ocean, climate and biodiversity.

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