Press Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:22:55
• Production Date: 8 January 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: APPOINTMENT OF OFFICIALS; ELECTIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; SECRETARY-GENERAL
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; ETHIOPIA; UGANDA
• MAMS Id: 2596665
• Parent Id: 2596665

Description

Fabrizio Hoschchild, the Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on preparations for UN75, was the guest at the noon briefing. He briefed reporters on the findings of the UN75 Final report, launched on Friday, and provided a preview of “We the Peoples”, the event planned in London for Sunday, to mark the 75th anniversary of the first UN General Assembly session. This event will kick off the Secretary-General’s first virtual official visit to the United Kingdom.

The Secretary-General is appointing Abdoulaye Mar Dieye of Senegal as the Special Coordinator for development in the Sahel. Also appointed was Volker Perthes of Germany as the Secretary-General's new Special Representative for Sudan and Head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, which has a new acronym, UNITAMS. And lastly, the Secretary-General appointed Mette Knudsen of Denmark as his new Deputy Special Representative for the UN Mission in Afghanistan.

The UN, along with its partners, has been able to access areas in Ethiopia that have been previously inaccessible, particularly Tigray and bordering areas.

The UN Mission in the Central African Republic says that the three-day period to appeal provisional results of the presidential elections to the Constitutional Court ended yesterday.

The UN Human Rights Office is deeply concerned by the deteriorating human rights situation in Uganda ahead of the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for January 14th.

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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General