In three states in the Darfur region - North, South and East - WFP has now reached some 180,000 people.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has now reached more than 600,000 vulnerable people with food and nutrition aid since restarting distributions in the country. Moving to Sudan, we, alongside our partners, continue to help families displaced by the fighting, as well as the communities hosting them. Local groups and community-based volunteers play a vital role in delivering assistance. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) notes that hundreds of humanitarian organizations are involved in this effort. More than 60 per cent of those reached are women and girls. By the end of April, we had reached 5.4 million men, women and children, around 800,000 people more than the total number assisted by the end of March. We, along with our humanitarian partners, continue to reach more people with assistance across the country. Today’s attacks have also reportedly impacted health facilities in Donetsk city, currently under Russian military control, and that’s according to the authorities there. Our humanitarian partners are on the ground providing emergency response to the survivors. Moving to Europe and to Ukraine, the Humanitarian Coordinator there, Denise Brown, strongly condemned an attack that hit a hospital this morning in Dnipro. Mr. Lacroix will also travel to Zambia to discuss the country’s contribution to UN peace operations, as well as regional security and political dynamics.įinally, Mr. Lacroix will head to the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to the capital, Kinshasa, to hold consultations with Congolese authorities, notably on the development of options for MONUSCO’s reconfiguration and the Mission’s presence in the country. He will go to Luanda, Angola, along with Bintou Keita, the Head of the peacekeeping mission in the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo). They will be there for high-level discussions on strengthening relations between Angola and the United Nations, as well as efforts towards a lasting peace and security in the eastern part of the DRC. He will also visit our peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO.
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Trip announcement also related to Peacekeeping: Starting this Sunday, 28 May, and until 7 June, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, will travel to Africa to conduct a series of engagements with troop- and police-contributing countries. Please do take a look at the exhibit it is quite interesting, to say the least. The Inside Out Project was founded by artist JR to help communities around the world to stand up for what they believe in. Despite these obstacles, and working with a wide range of partners, peacekeepers persevere.Īnd just to flag that today the Department of Peace Operations (DPO) participated in a special “Inside Out” art activation in Times Square right here in New York city. In his message, the Secretary-General, António Guterres, says that peacekeepers face rising global tensions and divides, stagnating peace processes, and more complex conflicts. On Monday - which I remind you is an official holiday in our host country, and therefore a holiday in this very building, and I don’t anticipate, expect to see any of you on Monday - but Monday is also, very importantly, the official day of Peacekeepers and we mark 75 years of UN Peacekeeping, celebrated this year with the theme “Peace begins with me”. On Saturday, tomorrow, she will head to Lisbon, Portugal, on behalf of the Secretary-General to participate in the opening alongside with Prime Minister António Costa of Portugal at the conference organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), titled “Thinking about industrial property, sustainability and the future of the planet.” Outcomes from the Summit must dovetail into the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights if we are to ensure we leave no one behind, Ms. Mohammed said. In her Executive Briefing to Member States, she shared the importance of the forthcoming SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Summit, encouraging Member States to reach for the highest ambitions possible and ensure support to the transitions which will accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Their discussions focused largely on how the system can better support Member States to deliver on the many important summits that will take place in September. Our Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, is in Geneva today, as we announced she would be she will be meeting with UN leadership from various UN entities in Geneva. Thank you for making the effort, and good afternoon. The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
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