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Secretary-General Travels, Security Council, Syria amp; other topics- Daily Press Briefing
The Secretary-General will depart New York today to travel to Rome, Italy, to take part in the G20 Summit. At the G20 Summit, the Secretary-General will participate in sessions on the global economy and global health; climate change; and sustainable development. On Sunday, 31 October, the Secretary-General will depart Italy for the United Kingdom to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, in Glasgow. The Secretary-General will then go to Cambridge, where he will receive an honorary degree on Wednesday.
Speaking on behalf of the Secretary-General to the High-level Debate on cooperation between the UN and the African Union today in the Security Council, Amina Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General, said that today’s discussions are taking place in the context of worrying trends across the continent.
The Security Council discussed Syria yesterday afternoon, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, warned the Security Council members that daily life in Syria is becoming less and less affordable. Over ninety percent of the population now lives below the poverty line, he said.
The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, UNAMI, strongly condemned the attacks in Diyala on Tuesday night, which caused many deaths and injuries.
The UN is extremely concerned about the continued escalation of hostilities and violence in the northern part of the country, including airstrikes in Tigray today.
François Louncény Fall and Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the Secretary-General’s Special Representatives for Central Africa, and for West Africa and the Sahel are in Nigeria today to meet with government and military officials, as well as humanitarian and development partners.
Humanitarians say that aid services continue to be carried out across the country by both male and female aid workers.
The ACT-Accelerator has launched its new strategy for the next 12 months and is calling for US$23.4 billion to help the most at-risk countries secure and deploy COVID-19 tools.
The UN team in Kyrgyzstan, led by Resident Coordinator Ozonnia Ojielo, says that yesterday, the country received 260,000 doses of vaccines donated by the Government of the United States through COVAX, in addition to another COVAX batch of over 110,000 doses.
A report released today by the UN Children’s Fund shows that at least 200 million schoolchildren living in 31 low- and middle-income countries remain unprepared to deploy remote learning in future emergency school closures.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization today released a report showing that forests in UNESCO World Heritage sites play a vital role in mitigating climate change by absorbing 190 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.
Today, the World Health Organization is kicking off the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, with the ambitious target of preventing at least 50% of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.
The guests at the noon briefing today were Achim Steiner, the Administrator for the UN Development Programme and Cassie Flynn, UNDP Strategic Advisor on Climate Change and Head of UNDP’s Climate Promise programme. They briefed reporters on the launch of UNDP's NDC Outlook report which, among other things, finds that Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries continue to lead the way on greater ambition on climate action with their pledges, or 'nationally determined contributions', under the Paris Agreement.
Tomorrow at 11:30 a.m., the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, will brief reporters in the press briefing room. Then at 12:30 p.m., the President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji, will do a press conference.
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