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IOM works in Minsk, Belarus, to counter stigma and discrimination against migrants.
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IOM concerned for migrants facing ‘dire conditions’ at EU-Belarus border

6 September 2021
Migrants and Refugees

Migrants are facing “dire conditions” at the European Union-Belarus border, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Monday. 

Air pollution from power plants contributes to global warming.
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EU urged to consider impact of new climate mechanism on developing countries

14 July 2021
Climate and Environment

Although a new European Union (EU) climate initiative unveiled on Wednesday could change global trade patterns to favour countries where production is relatively carbon efficient, its value in mitigating climate change will likely be limited, the UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD, has warned. 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers his remarks at the Plenary Session of the European Parliament in Brussels.
UN Photo/Marian Blondeel

UN chief urges European Parliament to support COVID vaccines for all

24 June 2021
Health

The European Union (EU) must use its leverage to ensure people everywhere have access to COVID-19 vaccines, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday. 

 

The multilateral system must deliver common goods as defined by international law, norms and agreements.
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Security Council urged to bring multilateralism ‘alive’, to tackle serious global challenges 

10 June 2021
Peace and Security

Rules-based multilateralism is not a simple or appealing phrase, a top European Union (EU) official told the Security Council on Thursday, “but our job is to bring it alive”.

Charles Michel (on screen) President of the European Council addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Human rights, multilateralism and battling COVID-19, top focus of European Union

25 September 2020
UN Affairs

The European Union has been at the forefront of international cooperation to defeat “the same common enemy”, COVID-19, the President of the European Council, told the UN General Assembly on Friday.

Josep Borrell, Euopean Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, addresses Security Council members in connection with the Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and sub-regional organizations.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Security Council: Paralysis and ‘political infighting’ must end, to boost COVID-19 fight: EU foreign affairs chief

28 May 2020
Peace and Security

 The global coronavirus pandemic is testing the multilateral system like never before and the Security Council must stop the “infighting”, and step up to the challenge, the European Union’s foreign policy chief told the 15-member body on Thursday.

Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaking in the Security Council.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Europe and UN form bulwark against ‘might makes right’ worldview, EU foreign affairs chief tells Security Council

12 March 2019
Peace and Security

“The concept of global governance risks being replaced by the old law that ‘might makes right’”, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, told the Security Council on Tuesday, during a meeting looking at on-going cooperation between the UN and the 28-member body.

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of the European Union, addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

More unity, ‘collective action’ needed to maintain international order, EU leader tells UN Assembly

27 September 2018
UN Affairs

Rules-based international order is under “great strain,” Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of the European Union (EU), told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, saying that his organization is “fighting intensely” to preserve it.

European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
Carmen Cuesta Roca

In wake of UK vote to leave EU, Ban says UN to continue to work with both 'important partners'

24 June 2016
Following the vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that the UN looks forward to continuing to work with both “important partners.”
Federica Mogherini, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, addresses the Security Council.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Unity at the core of global peace and security, top EU official tells Security Council

6 June 2016
In order to face and overcome the various political and humanitarian crises occurring around the world, working together in a spirit of cooperation and multilateralism must be a priority for both the United Nations and the European Union (EU) – and indeed, all countries worldwide – a top EU official told the Security Council today.