Noon briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
Highlights:
- Afghanistan.
- Noon Briefing Guest on Monday.
- Afghanistan\World Health Organization.
- Afghanistan\Food Security.
- Afghanistan\UN Development Programme.
- Ethiopia.
- Mali.
- Madagascar.
- International Day.
- Senior Personnel Appointment.
AFGHANISTAN
I think you will all have seen the statements of condemnation at the terrorist attack that took place at the airport in Kabul yesterday – not only from the Secretary-General yesterday afternoon but from many other voices throughout the UN system.
For its part, the UN Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, not only condemned the attack but said that the UN is committed to stay and deliver. The UN has been working for the people of Afghanistan for decades and the Mission stressed that we will remain and do everything for the people of Afghanistan who have suffered so much.
The Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations and Humanitarian Coordinator on the ground, Ramiz Alakbarov, saluted medical NGOs who are responding to civilians wounded in the attack, including children. He also reiterated our commitment to the people of Afghanistan and called for their immediate protection.
ETHIOPIA
Yesterday afternoon, the Secretary-General spoke about the situation in the country in the Security Council. He warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes, with more than two million people displaced from their homes, and millions more in immediate need of life-saving humanitarian assistance.
On this very point, our humanitarian colleagues tell us that while 100 trucks a day of food and other assistance are needed every day in Ethiopia, we, along with our partners, have not yet been able to bring any trucks into Tigray since 20 August, that’s seven days ago.
According to our colleagues, stocks of food assistance are depleted, and new distributions of food have stopped, other than in areas where supplies were already dispatched and en route.
MALI
A few minutes ago, the Local transition monitoring committee, which as you all know includes ECOWAS – that’s the Economic Commission for West African States – the African Union, our Peacekeeping Mission in the country, and members of the international community, welcomed the decision by the Malian Government to lift all restrictions linked to the former transition President, Bah N’Daw and his Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, who you may remember is a former Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations here in New York.
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