Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Video Length: 00:14:19
• Production Date: 25 February 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO; OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; POSTAL SERVICES; SECRETARY-GENERAL
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA; SYRIA; YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2535376
• Parent Id: 2535376

Description

The Secretary-General is on his way back from Geneva.

The Deputy Secretary-General is in Zimbabwe today.

The Secretary-General has written, to offer his condolences to the Government of Egypt and to the family of the former President Hosni Mubarak, following his death that was announced today.

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

The Office of Martin Griffiths, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, is hosting a consultative meeting with a group of Yemeni public and political figures in Amman, Jordan, on 26-27 February 2020.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Executive Director of World Food Programme, today called for increased funding to tackle the swarms of locusts.

James Swan, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the country, told members of the Security Council yesterday that 2020 had the potential to be a transformative year for Somalia.

In Burkina Faso, almost 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since last December.

In Norway today, Prime Minister Erna Solberg will gather a group of the Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals Advocates and UN representatives on the Norwegian Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard to witness a new seed deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) today welcomed the resumption of international postal exchanges between Qatar and Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Turkey has now paid its budget dues in full bringing the Honour Roll up to 54.

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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General