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The Star
26-05-2025
- Politics
- The Star
UN ocean summit critical to its protection
One in three people rely on the ocean for their livelihood but the ocean is in danger. FROM June 9 to 13, France will co-host, with Costa Rica, the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3). For this crucial event, around 100 heads of state and government will converge in Nice, as well as tens of thousands of researchers, scientists, economic actors, activists and citizens from around the world. On this occasion, France's aim will be clear: protecting the ocean through tangible action. The ocean is our common good. It feeds and protects our peoples. It provides us with sustainable energy, trade, resources and infinite scientific knowledge.
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First Post
20-05-2025
- Business
- First Post
Macron rejects Bangladesh's request for bilateral with Yunus next month, Dhaka cancels trip
Yunus was all set to fly down to France to attend the Third United Nations Ocean Conference to be held next month after Dhaka requested for a bilateral meeting between Macron and Yunus read more Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the Government of Bangladesh, attends the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025. File Image/Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected plans for a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh's Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of an international summit slated for next month. According to a report by the Economic Times, Yunus was all set to fly down to France to attend the Third United Nations Ocean Conference to be held next month after Dhaka requested for a bilateral meeting between Macron and Yunus. France, however, refused the proposal, following which Yunus had to cancel his trip to the country, in a development that is being seen as a setback to the interim government's global outreach. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The conference will be in Nice from June 9, and the French president has planned to host the participants for dinner the day before. Why did France cancel the meeting? Sources in Dhaka told the news outlet that after receiving an invitation from France, Bangladesh actively sought to organise a bilateral meeting between President Macron and Yunus. However, French officials conveyed that numerous countries attending the conference had already requested bilateral meetings, leaving no room to accommodate an additional one. France has reportedly said that it does not want to hold bilateral meetings during the summit and is keen on Yunus attending the ocean meet. France was interested in understanding the specific objectives of the proposed bilateral meeting and was not in favour of holding it merely for formality. Although Bangladesh had previously shown interest in purchasing civilian aircraft from France, there has been no significant progress on that front. Yunus' global outreach Yunus has been trying to snag meetings with prominent leaders from across the world to consolidate Bangladesh's position as the situation in the country took a turn for the worse following the dismissal of Sheikh Hasina's government. Last month, Yunus met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) Summit in Bangkok. This was the first time PM Modi met Yunus.
Economic Times
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Economic Times
French President Macron snubs Bangladesh's Yunus, forcing trip cancellation
French President Emmanuel Macron has refused a bilateral format meeting with Bangladesh interim adviser Md Yunus on the sidelines of an international conference next month, a decision that is being seen as a setback for Yunus' global outreach. Yunus was all set to visit France to attend the Third United Nations Ocean Conference, and Dhaka had requested a meeting between Yunus and Macron on the sidelines of the conference. However, France was not accepting the proposal for that meeting following which Yunus' visit to France had to be cancelled, hinted persons familiar with the conference is going to be held in Nice, France from June 9. The French president plans to host a dinner for the participants on June 8. Sources from Dhaka informed that after receiving the invitation from France, Bangladesh made huge efforts to arrange a bilateral meeting between Macron and Yunus. Paris informed that many countries interested in attending the conference have already requested a bilateral meeting, indicating that there was no scope for another bilateral meeting. France has informed that it does not want to combine bilateral meetings with the conference and was keen for Yunus to attend the ocean meet. Yunus, on his part, has been desperate to meet world leaders to garner support for his speaking on the condition of anonymity indicated France was keen to understand the desired outcome of the bilateral meeting and did not want a mere meeting just for the sake of it. Bangladesh had earlier expressed interest in buying civilian aircraft from France but there has been no progress on may now be represented by some other official at the ocean meet.
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
French President Macron snubs Bangladesh's Yunus, forcing trip cancellation
French President Emmanuel Macron has refused a bilateral format meeting with Bangladesh interim adviser Md Yunus on the sidelines of an international conference next month, a decision that is being seen as a setback for Yunus' global outreach. Yunus was all set to visit France to attend the Third United Nations Ocean Conference , and Dhaka had requested a meeting between Yunus and Macron on the sidelines of the conference. However, France was not accepting the proposal for that meeting following which Yunus' visit to France had to be cancelled, hinted persons familiar with the matter. The conference is going to be held in Nice, France from June 9. The French president plans to host a dinner for the participants on June 8. Sources from Dhaka informed that after receiving the invitation from France, Bangladesh made huge efforts to arrange a bilateral meeting between Macron and Yunus. Paris informed that many countries interested in attending the conference have already requested a bilateral meeting, indicating that there was no scope for another bilateral meeting. France has informed that it does not want to combine bilateral meetings with the conference and was keen for Yunus to attend the ocean meet. Yunus, on his part, has been desperate to meet world leaders to garner support for his regime. Sources speaking on the condition of anonymity indicated France was keen to understand the desired outcome of the bilateral meeting and did not want a mere meeting just for the sake of it. Bangladesh had earlier expressed interest in buying civilian aircraft from France but there has been no progress on that. Bangladesh may now be represented by some other official at the ocean meet.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ocean with David Attenborough: A thrilling, ravishing call to action to save the world's seas
David Attenborough turns 99 on Thursday – though his latest film, which opens in cinemas that very day, is a timely release in more ways than one. Next month in France, world governments will convene for the Third United Nations Ocean Conference – at which, his film argues, the futures of the world's undersea habitats and their many inhabitants will be at stake. This cracking campaigning documentary makes a galvanising case for action – and without lobbing its audience overboard with an anchor weight of hopelessness yoked to their heels. It first shows the otherworldly splendour and variegation of our planet's sea life, then sets out the overfishing crisis that mortally threatens it, before suggesting an achievable-sounding rescue plan that can be quickly enacted with enough political will and public support. (Probably in the opposite order.) We've done something similar before, our host reminds us in that unmistakable voice like butter being spread across hot toast. In the 1970s, commercial whaling had reduced the global population of those wondrous mammals to one per cent of its original levels. All hope for their survival seemed lost – until ordinary people became sufficiently moved by the creatures' plight that it suddenly wasn't. Positioning the push to end overfishing as 'the greatest opportunity for humanity in my lifetime', Attenborough, who delivers his narration perched on a groyne on a beach grey enough to be British, enters his 100th year on the planet with an optimistic glow. And it's infectious – thanks in no small part to the eye-widening wonder and patient craftsmanship of the film built around it. Attenborough's oeuvre has featured numerous scenes like the ones in Ocean before. But they're freshened here both by the 4K photography, by turns painterly and crisp, and the sense of scale conferred by the cinema screen itself. A sequence of zooplankton feasting on phytoplankton – which probably occurred within about a thimble's worth of seawater, tops – resembles a pitched battle from a trippy sci-fi epic. A swarm of spindly lobster larvae looks less like a group of actual living beings than their Into the Spider-Verse animated counterparts. Such microscopic spectacles were mysteries until fairly recently – but then our understanding of the oceans overall, Attenborough argues, have altered immeasurably over the course of his career as a naturalist. Directors Toby Nowlan, Colin Butfield and Keith Scholey deftly stitch that shift in perspective into a number of scenes. We've all seen banks of seaweed before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen them photographed in rolling top-down vistas, as if they were forests. (Which, of course, Ocean reminds us, they are.) The sense of mystery about the world beneath the waves is both embraced and dispelled: subaquatic mountain ranges are plotted on maps, recasting these vast empty spaces between continents as landscapes in their own right. Ocean with David Attenborough - Silverback Films and Open Planet Studios Attenborough's narration – poetic, erudite, neat – guides the audience through a number of harrowing scenes, many of which lay bare the destruction wreaked by industrial trawlers on environments formed over centuries, then torn up in seconds by the scrape of a chain-weighted net. Yet the nuance of the argument isn't lost. Fishing and overfishing are different things: the struggle isn't positioned as industry versus conservation so much as humanity versus a far-reaching disaster that's still avoidable, just. For all human parties concerned, more fish in the sea would be good news, and their ecosystem hasn't had its chips quite yet. PG cert, 95 min; in cinemas from Thursday May 8 Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
