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Afghanistan, Ukraine Security Council, Ethiopia other topics - Daily Press Briefing
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, addressed the Security Council in a private session this morning.
This afternoon, the Security Council will reconvene in an open meeting on Ukraine. nbsp;nbsp;
In Ethiopia, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that aid continues to be sent into the Tigray region.nbsp;
During a start-of-year press conference in Juba today, the Head of the UN mission in South Sudan [UNMISS] Nicholas Haysom, said that 2023 will determine whether the transition to peace, outlined in the Roadmap, can actually be achieved.nbsp;
A quick note from the Central African Republic that two international consultants working for the UN peacekeeping mission in that country were released without charges yesterday. nbsp;
Tomorrow the Secretary-General will address – by video message - the 13th session of the Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which is taking place in Abu Dhabi.nbsp;
On Syria, the Secretary-General's Deputy Envoy, Najat Rochdi, chaired the Humanitarian Task Force meeting in Geneva yesterday and urged its members to continue their support to Syrians. nbsp;
The Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and the Secretary-General of the UN Water Conference, Li Junhua; Henk Ovink, the Special Envoy of the Netherlands for Water; and Sulton Rahimzoda, the Special Envoy of the President of Tajikistan on Water, briefed reporters on the UN Water Conference, which is co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan and will take place in New York from 22 to 24 March. nbsp;nbsp;