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Daily Press Briefing: Belarus, DRC/Statement, DRC/Humanitarian, Samoa, SG/World Health Assembly, SG/Extractive Industries, DSG, Security Council, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan, CAR, COVAX
In a statement, the Secretary-General said he is deeply concerned over the apparent forced landing of a passenger aircraft over Belarus on 23 May and the subsequent detention of Mr. Roman Protasevich, a Belarusian journalist who was on board.
In a statement, the Secretary-General said he is saddened by the loss of life and damage caused by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo near Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 22 May.
Our colleagues on the ground are telling us that 13 people have died following the eruption. Approximately 5,000 people have lost their homes.
The Secretary-General has been following the developments since the 9 April General Elections in Samoa. He urges the leaders in Samoa to find solutions to the current political situation through dialogue in the best interest of the people and institutions of Samoa.
The Secretary-General this morning spoke by a prerecorded video message to World Health Assembly.
Tomorrow morning, the Secretary-General will convene a roundtable of 14 Heads of State and Government and ministers, as well as leaders from extractive industry and civil society.
On Sunday, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, joined African women Heads of State and Government, present and former, at a meeting of the African Women Leaders Network convened by former Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in support of the President of Tanzania.
This morning, at a Security Council open meeting on the safety and security of UN peacekeepers, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the Head of Peace Operations, reminded Council members that peacekeepers continue to operate in complex environments, where they face an increasing number of attacks by hostile actors.
On the situation in Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) tells us that the ceasefire has held since it went into effect on Friday. It is critical that all parties to the hostilities work to maintain it.
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today for consultations.
Moving to Afghanistan, we, along with national and international NGOs in the country reaffirmed their commitment to stay and deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in need.
In South Sudan, our humanitarian colleagues and their partners today strongly condemn what they say is yet another spate of senseless acts of violence against aid workers, with two separate attacks having taken place on 21 May.
In the Central African Republic, we are told by our peacekeeping colleagues that 50 constituencies went to the polls to elect their representatives to the National Assembly over the weekend.
We have some COVAX updates: authorities in Libya are speeding up the national vaccination programme after the second shipment of nearly 120,000 doses of the COVAX-backed vaccines arrived in the country last week. In Chile, our team there tells us that the country has received their second shipment of more than 600,000 doses of the COVAX-backed vaccines last week.
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