South Sudan, Iran, Syria other topics - Daily Press Briefing

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:16:18
• Production Date: 15 December 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: HAQ, FARHAN
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: CORONAVIRUS DISEASE - COVID 19; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; VACCINATION
• Geographic Subject: AFGHANISTAN; HAITI; IRAN; SOUTH SUDAN; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 2697790
• Parent Id: 2697790

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The Security Council met this morning on South Sudan.

Rosemary DiCarlo, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, briefed the Security Council yesterday afternoon on Iran and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Turning to Syria, an estimated 3.4 million people need humanitarian assistance in the north-west.

Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that the World Food Programme provided food to almost 150,000 people in Badakhshan, Takhar, Kandahar, Helmand and Uruzgan provinces on Monday.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization today said that as of 30 November, it has directly supported 2.23 million people in 2021 across 31 out of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.

We can report that in response to yesterday’s deadly fuel truck explosion in Cap-Haitien, the UN Humanitarian Air Services, Haitian and other humanitarian air assets are working under the coordination of the country’s authorities to transport medical personnel and supplies.

I have a COVID update for you today from Nicaragua, which received more than 800,000 vaccine doses through COVAX that had been donated by France to vaccinate pregnant women, postpartum women, and mothers who are exclusively breastfeeding.

Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., there will be a briefing by the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly.