Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:34:52
• Production Date: 29 January 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF; UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MINUSCA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: CHILD MORTALITY; CHILDREN; CIVILIAN PROTECTION; COORDINATION WITHIN UN SYSTEM; HEALTH HAZARDS; HOSTILITY; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS; MIGRATION; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; SECRETARY-GENERAL; TERRORISM; VIRUSES; YOUTH
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CHINA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; ETHIOPIA; LIBYA; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 2526427
• Parent Id: 2526427

Description

This morning, in the Economic and Social Council Chamber, the Secretary-General took part in the UN75 Inaugural Launch Event entitled “Youth in the Driving Seat.”

On the coronavirus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today announced that he will reconvene the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee to advise him on whether the current outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, briefed the Security Council on Syria this morning and said that hostilities have escalated in recent days in the Idlib area, especially around Ma’arat al-Numan, Saraqeb and western Aleppo.

The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Libya, Ghassan Salamé, has been invited to brief the African Union High Level Committee on Libya, which has been taking place in the Republic of Congo.

The UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic reports today that the situation in the town of Bria, located in the Haute-Kotto prefecture, is calm but tense.

Following her visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Michelle Bachelet, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on both the country’s Government and the international community “to seize the opportunity to lift the country out of its deadly cocktail of conflicts, human rights violations and chronic socio-economic problems.”

Today, the Government of Ethiopia, the UN, and humanitarian partners launched the Humanitarian Response Plan for Ethiopia for 2020.

We also launched the Ukraine Humanitarian Response Plan for 2020.

UNICEF said today that it is boosting efforts to fight pneumonia that could avert nearly 9 million child deaths.

The UN Development Coordination Office tells us that we have new Resident Coordinators in Bolivia, Congo, Tanzania and Thailand.

For further details please see SOURCE below.
Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General