Press Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:23:54
• Production Date: 21 January 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS - DESA; SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: BOMBINGS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISARMAMENT; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; MIGRANTS; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; UNITED NATIONS BUDGET
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; ETHIOPIA; GUATEMALA; HONDURAS; IRAQ; SOUTH SUDAN; SYRIA; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 2598521
• Parent Id: 2598521

Description

Yesterday afternoon, we issued a number of statements last night, responding positively to the decisions issued by the new United States President, Joe Biden.

The Secretary-General strongly condemns the deadly double suicide bombing targeting civilians at a market in Baghdad today.

On 6 April 2020, the Secretary-General submitted to the President of the Security Council a summary of a report by the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry to investigate certain incidents that had occurred in northwest Syria since 17 September 2017, in which facilities on the UN’s deconfliction list or supported by the United Nations were destroyed or damaged as a result of military operations.

In the Security Council this morning, the head of the Peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic, Mankeur Ndiaye, said that the country faces the grave risk of a setback.

The UN team in Honduras, led by Resident Coordinator Alice Shackleford, is working with local and national authorities to address the needs of migrants returning from Guatemala.

Tomorrow, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is set to enter into force.

From South Sudan, the UN peacekeeping mission there (UNMISS) has received reports of sporadic intercommunal conflict caused by cattle raiding in Greater Tonj, in the Warrap State of South Sudan. Fighting there has reportedly led to deaths, injuries and population displacement.

Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, said that she is greatly concerned by serious allegations of sexual violence in the Tigray in Ethiopia. This includes a high number of alleged rapes in the capital of Mekelle.

Today, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) announced the 20 members of its Second High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs who will closely collaborate with DESA to provide guidance and focused recommendations for the Secretary-General to respond to current and future socio-economic challenges in the post-COVID-19 world and as well to advance the Decade of Action on the SDGs.

We thank our friends in Germany and in New Zealand for their full payments to the 2021 regular budget.

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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General