Ambassador of Israel Danny Danon: “The meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Trump comes at a critical time for the Middle East. We are grateful for our deep partnership with the US. We fought shoulder to shoulder against Iran.”
Danny Danon: “Iran has violated the MoU with the United States and continues to choose terrorism over negotiations. Iran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz and launch ballistic missiles, terrorizing the region.”
⚠️ “Important inequalities also persist”: moderate or severe food insecurity affected 30% of rural populations vs 22% in urban areas.
“2.7 billion people” face significant health problems because of undernourishment and overnutrition.
Source: FAO, SOFI 2026 report
���� “7.8 percent of the global population was undernourished in 2025, equivalent to 645 million people.”
A reduction of 40m between 2024 and 2025, and 43m compared with the 2022 peak. But numbers remain approximately 50m higher than in 2015, when the SDGs were adopted.
In Haiti, UN chief appeals for international support
During his recent visit to Haiti, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on the international community to stand with the country's people.
"The cost of a healthy diet is not simply another statistic."
FAO calls for:
• reducing structural costs across the value chain;
• repurposing policies toward nutrient-dense foods;
• strengthening evidence-based policymaking through better data and coordination.
🚨 FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero Cullen:
"Almost one in every three people in the world still cannot afford a healthy diet."
📊 The 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report will be released on 21 July in Rome.
• The global cost of a healthy diet has increased 25% in just five years.
• It now stands at US$4.28 (PPP) per person per day.
• 2.69 billion people still cannot afford a healthy diet.
Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Final, the United Nations Youth Office announced the launch of a global advocacy campaign on youth mental health and well-being: One World, One Game, One Goal.
Acting Assistant Secretary-General Indrika Ratwatte said more than 18 million people across Yemen are hungry, while the parties agreed in May to release over 1,600 conflict-related detainees — the largest such release agreed since the start of the conflict in Yemen.
UN Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari warned that unilateral measures “will not bring Yemen closer to peace” and “risk entrenching divisions, accelerating fragmentation and heightening the danger of renewed escalation and military confrontation.”
Military spending reached 2.9 trillion dollars in the same year that development assistance suffered its steepest fall on record, leaving an annual SDG financing gap of four trillion dollars.
Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed highlighted gains in human development since 2020:
Global unemployment fell to a record low of 4.9 per cent in 2025, nearly one billion more people gained access to drinking water over the past decade.
At the same time, Mohammed warned that conflict in the Middle East has disrupted maritime traffic, energy, fertilizer and food corridors, driving up inflation, and that war has erased 77 years of human development gains in Gaza.