Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:11:58
• Production Date: 18 February 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FARHAN HAQ
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - UNHCHR; UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MINUSCA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: CIVILIAN PROTECTION; DEATH; HOSTILITY; MILITARY DEMOBILIZATION; PEACE AGREEMENTS; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; REFUGEE ASSISTANCE; SECRETARY-GENERAL; SECURITY SITUATIONS; TRAVEL; VIOLENCE
• Geographic Subject: AFGHANISTAN; BURKINA FASO; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; LIBYA; SOUTH SUDAN; SYRIA; YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2533007
• Parent Id: 2533007

Description

The Secretary-General is wrapping up his three-day visit to Pakistan just now, after a day in which he visited the Kartarpur Corridor, which allows Sikhs to travel between nearby holy sites on either side of the India-Pakistan border.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Spokesman said the Secretary-General had been following closely the talks between the United States and the Taliban about a significant reduction of violence in Afghanistan aimed at opening the way for intra-Afghan peace negotiations.

Martin Griffiths, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, today told the Security Council that we are witnessing in Yemen what we have long feared. During the past month, he said, the military situation has grown increasingly dire, and both sides have announced expansive military goals and exchanged fierce rhetoric.

The United Nations remains alarmed about the safety and protection of over three million civilians in Idlib and surrounding areas in Syria, as reports of incessant airstrikes and shelling continue to exact a heavy toll on the civilian population.

The parties to the Libyan Joint Military Commission, or the 5+5 talks, have begun their next round of discussions in Geneva today.

Today, the UN Mission in the Central African Republic is continuing its operations to protect the population and secure the town of Birao, in the country’s northeast.

In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, the Secretary-General expressed his deep concern over reports about the killing of civilians, including children, last Friday, in an attack on the village of Ngarbuh in the North-West Region of Cameroon.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Secretary-General strongly condemned the attack, on Sunday, that reportedly targeted churchgoers in Pansi, in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso.

In South Sudan, the UN has strongly condemned the brutal killing of an aid worker in Pibor County, Jonglei.

The UN Refugee Agency today said it is deeply saddened by reports of the deaths of at least 20 people, among them women and infants, during a stampede for food and cash in Niger’s Diffa region on Sunday.

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