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Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General
The Secretary-General is in Iraq today, on what he called a visit of solidarity with the Iraqi people and Government, and he has just arrived in Erbil.
The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, spoke to the Security Council this morning and told them that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions more injured over the six years of fighting in Syria. He added that the last months have been some of the worst yet for civilians inside Syria.
In a briefing yesterday to the Security Council, the Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, expressed his deep concern about the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and economic situation amid a worrying escalation of military operations.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Central African Republic warns of a new outbreak of violence in the prefectures of Ouaka, Haute Kotto and Mbomou resulting from clashes between armed groups. This comes at a time when the consequences of the violence which studded the country between September 2016 and February 2017 are still heavily felt.
The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, said today that the ongoing conflict in the country is affecting food security in some of the country’s more “stable states”.
The World Food Programme (WFP) today began to move food assistance to reach people hit by famine and food-insecure in South Sudan by using a newly opened humanitarian corridor announced by the Government of Sudan.
As the possibility of famine looms, an increasing number of children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, cholera or acute watery diarrhea in Somalia, according to UNICEF.
Tonight, the Deputy Secretary-General will depart New York for Washington, D.C. for meetings with the leadership and senior officials at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. During her visit she will also meet with representatives from civil society.
Tomorrow morning, the UN will observe World Autism Awareness Day, which is 2 April, with an event entitled “Toward Autonomy and Self-Determination”, to take place at 10 a.m. in the ECOSOC Chamber.
The Czech Republic and Myanmar have paid their regular budget dues in full, bringing the total number of Member States that have done so to 71.