Virtual Press Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:22:17
• Production Date: 10 August 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION - IOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: CORONAVIRUS DISEASE - COVID 19; FLOODS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; MEMORIALS; MIGRANTS; PEACEBUILDING; VIOLENCE
• Geographic Subject: BELARUS; CAMEROON; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; GUINEA-BISSAU; IRAQ; JAPAN; LEBANON; MAURITIUS; NIGER; SOUTH SUDAN; YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2553542
• Parent Id: 2553542

Description

The Spokesman said he had seen the reports regarding changes in the Lebanese Government and that he may have more to say on the political situation later today or tomorrow.

The Secretary-General continues to follow with great concern the ongoing situation in that country, including reports of post-election protests and violence overnight in the capital Minsk as well as other cities.

The tragedy in Beirut last week only underscores the urgency of resolving the ongoing threat posed by the SAFER oil tanker which is anchored off the coast of Yemen.

Eight people, including six aid workers, were killed in a brutal armed attack yesterday in Kouré, 60 kilometres east of the capital, Niamey.

Yesterday, the Secretary-General had a message to the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.

The Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim in Cameroon, Siti Batoul Oussein, strongly condemned the killing of an aid worker in the North West region of the country.

The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is concerned about the escalation of intercommunal violence in several areas of the South Kivu province.

There are more than 300 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths in Mauritius.

Today, the World Health Organization and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, kickstarted the second phase of a COVID-19 awareness-raising campaign in the high-risk areas of Thi Qar and Missan, south of Baghdad.

The International Organization for Migration and the International Chamber of Commerce today released employer guidance for measures to protect migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This morning, during an in-person Council session on Guinea-Bissau, the Head of the Peacebuilding mission, Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, said that with dire health infrastructure and limited resources, the country is in a particularly fragile situation to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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