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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Turkey should approve Sweden's stalled bid for membership "as soon as possible". "Sweden has delivered on what they promised and now the time has come for Turkiye to finalise the accession process," Stoltenberg tells a press conference in Brussels. Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO members to not yet have ratified Sweden joining the alliance over 18 months after it applied for membership. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says that Russia's decision to exit the Ukraine grain deal will "strike a blow to people in need everywhere." SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says "the time has come to ratify both Finland and Sweden and to make them full members of our alliance " during a press conference in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. SOUNDBITE
Humanity must "cooperate or perish" in the face of accelerating climate change impacts, UN chief Antonio Guterres tells world leaders at talks in Egypt on curbing global warming. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges wealthy nations to tax fossil fuel companies and use the proceeds to compensate for damage from climate change and provide relief over rising prices. "Let's tell it like it is -- our world is addicted to fossil fuels. It's time for an intervention. We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account," Guterres says in an address to open the UN General Assembly. SOUNDBITE