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Briefing by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General is in Gdansk, Poland, today, to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
The Secretary-General will travel to Washington, D.C., next Friday and on Saturday morning, 16 May, he will deliver the commencement address at Georgetown University's Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Johannes van der Klaauw, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said today that he is gravely concerned by the recent reports coming out of Aden with accounts of scores of people, many of them civilians, being killed and injured in hostilities.
As part of the ongoing Geneva Consultations, the Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, met today with His Highness, Prince Mohammed bin Saud bin Khaled al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Information and Technology Affairs.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said that thousands of women and children in regions where Boko Haram violence has spilled across borders into Cameroon, Niger and Chad face a gruelling lean season and the prospects of malnutrition.
From South Sudan, the UN Mission in that country (UNMISS) reports that more than 500 displaced people have arrived at the Mission's protection of civilians site in Bentiu, in Unity State, since 3 May. Most of them have arrived from Guit County and the area of Nhialdiu in Rubkona County, where heavy fighting has reportedly been taking place between Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) troops and opposition forces.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that the start of the lean season in June in Sudan will likely bring an increase in the number of people who are food insecure in Sudan from the current 3.5 million to 4 million people.
As of yesterday, more than 7,600 people have been killed and nearly 16,400 people injured in the earthquake in Nepal. More than 284,000 houses have been destroyed. Authorities and humanitarian partners have now reached all affected districts.
The Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, today spoke at the high-level General Assembly thematic debate, which is taking place in the lead up to the 2016 Special Session on the World Drug Problem. Mr. Eliasson said that we must first acknowledge that the drugs trade, in many cases, poses a threat to peace and security at the national, regional and international levels.
The FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization] reports that world food prices continue to decline in April amid hefty supply levels of basic agricultural commodities.
