Briefing by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:29:23
• Production Date: 31 July 2015
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: VIOLENCE; PEACE AND SECURITY; COUNTER-TERRORISM; SECRETARY-GENERAL; POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; NUTRITION; CEASEFIRES
• Geographic Subject: YEMEN; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; PAKISTAN; SYRIA; SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: 1413334
• Parent Id: 1413220

Description

The Secretary-General condemns today’s murder of a Palestinian child in the West Bank and calls for the perpetrators of this terrorist act to be promptly brought to justice.

The Secretary-General will travel to Washington, D.C., to meet with US President Barack Obama on Tuesday, 4 August.

We issued very early this morning a statement by the Secretary-General on the transition of the UN Ebola Emergency Response.

On Yemen, our humanitarian colleagues inform us that humanitarian deliveries continue throughout Yemen, where possible.

According to our friends at UNHCR, more than 23,000 people, that’s 90 per cent of whom are Somalis, have arrived in Somalia.

And a couple of notes relating to Myanmar — our colleagues at OCHA tell us that Cyclonic Storm Komen has made landfall in Bangladesh and caused heavy rainfall in several areas across Myanmar before it dissipated.

Yesterday afternoon, the Secretary-General had a phone call with the President of Guyana, Mr. David Granger. The Secretary-General spoke with the President following their meeting on the margins of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Barbados earlier this month.