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Daily Press Briefing: Secretary-General, Nicaragua, Venezuelan Refugees, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Myanmar, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Viet Nam, Noon Briefing Guests Tomorrow
On Thursday evening, the Secretary-General will travel to the United Kingdom to attend the 2021 G7 Summit that is being held in Cornwall, where he will participate in a number of working sessions.
The Secretary-General is very concerned by the recent arrests and detentions, as well as the invalidation of candidacies of opposition leaders in Nicaragua.
The UN Refugee Agency today warned that the onset of winter, compounded by the devastating effects of the pandemic, poses a direct threat to the health and livelihoods of Venezuelan refugees and migrants.
We strongly condemn the heinous attack on the Halo Trust NGO that took place in Baghlan-e-Markazi district in northern Afghanistan.
The Humanitarian Response Plan was launched today at a joint event hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations team in Pakistan.
The UN country team says that today remains very concerned over continued efforts to undermine the freedom of expression and the freedom of the press through systematic imposition of restrictive policies and practices since the military took over the Government on 1 February.
The UN Peacekeeping Mission says that yesterday, two international judges and one international prosecutor were sworn-in to the Special Criminal Court in Bangui.
In Ethiopia, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that in Tigray, incidents of denial of humanitarian movement, interrogation, assault and detention of humanitarian workers at military checkpoints continues to be reported. Looting and confiscation of humanitarian assets and supplies by the parties to the conflict have also been reported.
Our country team in Viet Nam led by the Resident Coordinator Kamal Malhotra, is stepping up its financial and technical support to the Government’s COVID-19 response.
Tomorrow we will welcome the UN Global Compact Executive Director, Sanda Ojiambo, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Carbon Disclosure Project, Paul Simpson. They will brief you on new research from the Science Based Targets initiative, a body enabling businesses to set ambitious emissions reduction targets, that reveals that none of the G7’s leading stock indexes are currently aligned with a 1.5°C or 2°C pathway and calls on the largest listed G7 companies to urgently increase climate action.
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