Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:15:23
• Production Date: 2 August 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: ARMED GROUPS; ARMS; COUNTER-TERRORISM; DIALOGUE; HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS; PEACE PROCESS; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; RADICALISM; TERRORISM; UNITED NATIONS BUDGET
• Geographic Subject: AFGHANISTAN; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; GUINEA-BISSAU; NAMIBIA; OMAN; YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 1943551
• Parent Id: 1942158

Description

Today, the Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, Toby Lanzer, is in Herat following yesterday’s attack at a mosque.

The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, arrived in Oman today and had a positive and constructive meeting with Foreign Minister Yusuf Ben Alawi.

The UN Mission in the Central African Republic has launched an operation this week to remove armed fighters from Bangassou. The town has been the epicentre of inter-ethnic violence during the last couple of weeks, which resulted in the displacement of over 2,000 civilians and the killing of three UN peacekeepers.

The Head of the Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Maman Sidikou, has expressed concern over arbitrary arrests and detentions in different parts of the country. He said these followed peaceful civil society mobilization to protest delays in the publication of the electoral calendar and to call for the holding of elections before the end of the year.

The Security Council held an open meeting this morning on preventing terrorists from acquiring weapons.

Guinea-Bissau and Namibia have paid their dues to the regular budget in full, bringing the number of Member States that have done so to 118.