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COVID-19

Remarks on the Launch of a COVID-19 Multi-sectoral Response Plan And Funding Appeal for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean

English

Remarks by Ms. Fekitamoeloa Katoa¡®Utoikamanu, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

6 May 2020?
New York, USA

Excellencies,?
Colleagues,?
Ladies and gentlemen,

I am happy to join you and especially because this is the very first COVID-19 Appeal of this nature that supports SIDS.?

Least Developed Countries Appeal for ¡°Global Stimulus Package¡± to Combat COVID-19 and its Economic Aftershocks

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NEW YORK 28 April 2020 ¨C At a briefing today coordinated by UN-OHRLLS, ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) presented an urgent "global stimulus package for LDCs" to the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ms Amina Mohammed.??

Opening Remarks at the Placencia Ambition Forum

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Statement?by Ms. Fekitamoeloa Katoa¡®Utoikamanu, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

20 & 22 April 2020?
New York, USA

Excellencies,?
Colleagues,?
Ladies and gentlemen,

A warm welcome to you all!

It is a privilege to add my voice in my capacity as High Representative to this important gathering calling for continued focus on and raising ambition for climate action.

COVID-19: For the First Time We¡¯re Talking About a Development Emergency Response

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NEW YORK, 6 April 2020 ¨C With COVID-19, the world is facing an unprecedented threat. The novel coronavirus has spread to over 200 countries and territories that are facing, in the words of the Deputy Secretary-General, ¡°not just a health emergency or a humanitarian emergency but for the first time a development emergency.¡±

Statement Regarding the Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Countries

English

Statement by Ms. Fekitamoeloa Katoa¡®Utoikamanu, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

2 April 2020?
New York, USA

My thoughts and best wishes are with all of you.?

A tsunami called COVID-19 is hitting us. We are in the throes of a virus that knows no borders, ?and travels on land and sea at lightning speeds. ?
The disruption and the suffering are everywhere. And for now, we live with them everywhere. ?