Virtual Press Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:17:58
• Production Date: 8 June 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS SUPPORT MISSION IN LIBYA - UNSMIL
• Subject Topical: APPOINTMENT OF OFFICIALS; INTERNATIONAL DAYS; OCEANS
• Geographic Subject: BURUNDI; CHAD; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; LIBYA; SOUTH SUDAN; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 2547617
• Parent Id: 2547617

Description

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said that it is encouraged by recent calls on the part of Libyan leaders for the resumption of talks with an aim towards ending the fighting and division.

The UN is increasingly concerned about rapidly rising food prices in Syria, where more than 11 million women, children and men urgently need humanitarian assistance. Prices have more than doubled in the last year, rising by 133 per cent across the country.

The UN’s Humanitarian Chief, Mark Lowcock, has released $40 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to address health emergencies in the DRC.

There are more than 830 cases of COVID-19 and nearly 70 deaths in the country, and the UN team, led by the Resident Coordinator Violet Kakyomya, has been working with the Government and partners to tackle the health, humanitarian and socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic.

In South Sudan the UN Mission there says that, in Eastern Equatoria state, peacekeepers are supporting an organization led by youth to help sensitize local communities on how to stay safe and healthy.

In response to questions about the elections in Burundi, the Spokesman sent out a note over the weekend expressing that the Secretary-General had taken note of the final results of the presidential and legislative elections, as declared on June 4th by the Constitutional Court of Burundi.

Today is World Oceans Day. This year’s theme is “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean.

Today, following consultations with the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Secretary-General announced the appointment of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema of Tanzania as the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Tomorrow, the guest at the briefing will be Maximo Torero Cullen, the Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department of the FAO. He will brief on the Secretary-General’s policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on food security.

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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General