Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:14:37
• Production Date: 31 May 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FARHAN HAQ
• Subject Topical: DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL; SECRETARY-GENERAL; TOBACCO CONTROL; TRAVEL
• Geographic Subject: LIBYA; MADAGASCAR; MOZAMBIQUE; YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2401137
• Parent Id: 2401137

Description

The Secretary-General will travel on 5 June to St. Petersburg in the Russian Federation, where he will participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which begins in that city on the following day.

This evening, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, will depart New York for London to attend the Our Shared Humanity meetings of the United Nations Association-UK and Chatham House. Those meetings will take place on 3 and 4 June.

The United Nations is supporting the Government of Mozambique, which is convening a pledging conference for recovery and reconstruction in the wake of the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth.

The Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian, Ursula Mueller, will visit Madagascar from 3 to 5 June to see first-hand the humanitarian situation in the country.

Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that the number of people who have fled their homes due to the fighting in Libya’s capital Tripoli has surpassed 90,000, according to the UN Migration Agency.

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, says that almost 4,300 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since the roll-out in 2017 of an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme, facilitated by UNHCR in cooperation with humanitarian partners and authorities in Yemen and Somalia.

Just a reminder that today is World No Tobacco Day which is focusing on the damage that tobacco causes on lung health. And there is plenty more information on this on the World Health Organization’s website.

I just want to flag that, here at UN Headquarters we are taking steps to curtail our own use of single-use plastics. As you may have noticed when visiting the UN cafeterias, we are switching to more sustainable alternatives. This is part of an ongoing effort to green the building and advance sustainable management and operations.

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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General