Belarus on Friday announced presidential polls will be held in August as Alexander Lukashenko has sought to play down the risks of the coronavirus pandemic.
08/05/2020Read more
The first batch of low-enriched uranium nuclear fuel has been delivered to the construction site of Belarusian NPP. The Russian-made fuel assemblies are currently being prepared for unloading and inspection.
07/05/2020Read more
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) supports the wearing of face coverings for passengers and masks for crew while on board aircraft as a critical part of a layered approach to biosecurity to be implemented temporarily when people return to traveling by air. IATA does not support mandating social distancing measures that would leave ‘middle seats’ empty.
06/05/2020Read more
The “most massive public health effort in history” is needed to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said on Monday, addressing a European Union pledging conference in Brussels, the UN News Center said.
05/05/2020Read more
On World Press Freedom Day, we pay tribute to the essential role of journalism in upholding online and offline freedom of expression in democratic societies and fostering transparency and accountability, High Representative Josep Borrell said in a declaration on behalf of the European Union.
03/05/2020Read more
To combat the COVID-19 pandemic and the “looming existential threat of climate disruption”, the only credible response is “brave, visionary and collaborative leadership” anchored in mutilateralism, the UN Secretary General António Guterres, said on Tuesday, during an international discussion focused on climate change.
29/04/2020Read more
As the pressure mounts on countries to ease their lockdown restrictions, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has urged Governments to take action to prevent and control COVID-19 in the workplace, with active involvement and dialogue with employers’ and workers’ organizations.
29/04/2020Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic’s lockdown measures pose special threats and challenges to an independent judiciary, said today the Special Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers, Diego García-Sayán. He released seven key guidelines to ensure judges, justice workers, prosecutors and lawyers maintain functioning judicial systems.
24/04/2020Read more
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms. Kristalina Georgieva; the Director General Chairman of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund, Mr. Abdulrahman Al Hamidy; Director of ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), the surveillance unit of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM), Mr. Toshinori Doi; the Managing Director of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD), Mr. Andrey Shirokov; the Deputy Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission (EC), Mr. Declan Costello; the Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism, Mr. Klaus Regling; the Executive President of Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR), Mr. José Darío Uribe; and the co-chair of the G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group (G20 IFA WG), Mr. Guillaume Chabert, held a teleconference today and reported on efforts taken by their institutions to forcefully address the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on the global economy. Stressing the urgent need for combined, multilateral efforts to face the extraordinary human and economic crisis caused by the pandemic, the heads issue the following statement:
22/04/2020Read more
Today an international alliance of UN, governmental, and non-governmental agencies working to address the root causes of extreme hunger have released a new edition of their annual Global Report on Food Crises.
22/04/2020Read more
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