Daily Press Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:20:01
• Production Date: 7 December 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND - UNFPA
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN; COUNTER-TERRORISM; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE - COVID 19; GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE; INTERNATIONAL DAYS
• Geographic Subject: AFGHANISTAN; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; LIBYA; YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2590090
• Parent Id: 2590090

Description

This morning, the Secretary-General spoke at the start of a five-day meeting with the 129 UN Resident Coordinators who are leading the UN’s response and recovery efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic around the world.

Here, in the Security Council, addressing the Council by videoconference, Leila Zerrougui, the head of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, began by highlighting political tensions in the country, which led to yesterday’s announcement by President Felix Tshisekedi that the coalition uniting Cap for Change (CACH) and the Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC) had ended.

The Acting Special Representative for Libya, Stephanie Williams, hosted on Saturday a virtual meeting to inform the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum participants of the results of their voting processes over the previous days and to discuss the way forward.

Our acting Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Laurent Bukera, has said that a 3 December artillery shelling in Hudaydah City was “yet another senseless attack” that killed and injured many civilians.

The UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) reports that electoral materials including 12,000 ballot boxes, 4,200 kits and 12,000 voting booths have arrived in Bangui.

Tomorrow, the Secretary-General will open the annual High-Level Pledging Conference of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).

A report released today by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office warns that Afghan women and girls are being failed by the country’s justice system, with their access to justice for crimes of violence remaining tenuous.

This morning, the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism held an event to launch the ‘International Hub on Behavioural Insights to Counter Terrorism’, inaugurated today as a Programme Office in Doha in Qatar. Vladimir Voronkov, the Head of the Office, and the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Ghada Waly, will sign a joint Plan of Action to strengthen internal collaboration on counterterrorism and preventing violent extremism.

Today marks something that we rarely do these days and that is International Civil Aviation Day.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today launched an appeal for a record high $2.5 billion in emergency funding to help nearly 40 million children in the Middle East and North Africa next year.

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) today launched its largest ever humanitarian appeal, at a total of $818 million.

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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General