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Briefing by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General welcomed the agreement achieved yesterday evening by Member States on the outcome document of the UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda and that would be held, as you very well know, in this very building on 25 to 27 [September 2015].
The Secretary-General notes with great concern the continuing deterioration of the security environment in Burundi following an electoral period marked by violence and the violation of human rights, including the right to life.
The Secretary-General will travel to Washington [D.C.] tomorrow to meet with US President Barack Obama. The Secretary-General will then give some remarks following the meeting at the White House.
A statement was issued in which the Secretary-General condemned the killing yesterday of a peacekeeper from the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Iraq, Ján Kubiš, expressed serious concern at reports that up to 40 civilians may have been killed and more than 30 wounded in an airstrike in Rutba, west of Ramadi, last Friday.
Turning to the situation on Colombia, following the invitation made to the United Nations by the parties to the Colombian peace talks, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Miroslav Jenča travelled with a small team to Havana on 1 August.
The United Nations together with the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the European Union, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), as well as United States and United Kingdom today welcomed the commitments made at the High-Level Partnership Forum in Mogadishu.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) say that restrictions put in place by the authorities on the movement of barges from Bor to Malakal on River Nile, in South Sudan, as well as the lack of flight clearances to use the Malakal airport are threatening the aid operation in Upper Nile State.
OCHA tell us that according to the Government of Myanmar, 39 people have died and more than 200,000 across large parts of the country have been affected by the heavy monsoon and the rains and the flooding.
And tomorrow at 12.30 p.m., there will be a press briefing by the President of the Security Council for August, Ambassador [U. Joy] Ogwu of Nigeria. And she will be here to brief you on the [Council’s] programme of work.
