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  1. Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the Opening of the 7th International Conference on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics

    ... is facing grave challenges.   COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine have disrupted supply chains and caused major spikes in energy and food ...

  2. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at G20 Leaders’ Summit Side Event: Enabling Inclusive Development Through South-South and Triangular Cooperation [as prepared for delivery]

    ... here today at a time of great turmoil: COVID-19, the War in Ukraine and its impact on rising food and energy costs, increasing climate ...

  3. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at the African Union's Ambassadors Ball — “Our Africa, our Future” [as delivered]

    ... impacts of COVID and the consequences of the war in Ukraine.  While these challenges are yet to be met with the required ...

  4. Deputy Secretary-General's video message to International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security

    ... energy and cost of living crises exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic have severely affected global food security ...

  5. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at Side Event, "Enhancing the Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Catalyzing Private Finance and Investment" at World Bank Group - IMF Spring Meetings [as prepared for delivery]

    ... continuing to affect people around the world. The war in Ukraine has resulted in immense human suffering, as well as rising energy and ...

  6. Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the Italian Sustainable Development Festival High-Level Conference

    ... of extreme weather events around the world, to the war in Ukraine and associated crises in energy, food, and cost-of-living, and the ...

  7. Deputy Secretary-General's video message at the High-Level Opening of the Global Women's Forum for Peace and Humanitarian Action

    ... can shed light on the way forward afterwards.    From Ukraine to Afghanistan - Myanmar to Sudan – we are witnessing an alarming ...

  8. Deputy Secretary-General's opening message to the Ceremony of the Female Foreign Ministers meeting in Mongolia, 29-30 June

    ... exacerbated by the global impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Developing countries are hardest hit, and many are struggling under a ...

  9. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks to the 5th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union, Regional Economic Communities and Regional Mechanisms [as prepared for delivery]

    ... a climate emergency and the knock-on effects of the war in Ukraine. None of us needs reminding that Africa played no part in creating any ...

  10. Deputy Secretary-General's opening remarks at the High-Level Opening Segment of the GA-ECOSOC Thematic Event on Landlocked Developing Countries [as prepared for delivery] 

    ... from the devastating impacts of the COVID-19, to the war in Ukraine leading to rising costs of living, higher borrowing costs, and funding ...