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Speaker 1: Media Radio. I'm your host, Michael Cloggs in Afghanistan, and
Speaker 1: we're going to hear Japan, the United States, and several
Speaker 1: other countries that are in the UN Security Council make
Speaker 1: statements about this new law in Afghanistan that further, at
Speaker 1: least to the way we're seeing it, that it further
Speaker 1: limits the rights of being a woman, that it takes
Speaker 1: away even more of their freedom and makes them subservient
Speaker 1: to the men. The Italiban believe that that women are
Speaker 1: inferior and that they really should not be part of society.
Speaker 1: And it is a big human rights thing, amongst other things,
Speaker 1: of course, the right to be who you want to
Speaker 1: be with l g B t Q plus rights that
Speaker 1: are also squashed in several places around the world. That
Speaker 1: here it isn't is that we have should have be
Speaker 1: able to have the right to be who we want
Speaker 1: to be. That means that that we don't have to
Speaker 1: be looked at in a single measure and summed up
Speaker 1: to be a gender. And with that we're seeing that
Speaker 1: the countries like Afghanistan under Taliban rule are saying that
Speaker 1: women are less than than human beings. There are other
Speaker 1: places around the world that would also wish to make
Speaker 1: a certain appearance be that you are less than a
Speaker 1: human being. We've heard in the ICC when the South
Speaker 1: Africa proclaimed that ira was committing genocide, and they use
Speaker 1: also a term that was used in the Israeli parliament
Speaker 1: to say that the Palestinian people are less than human.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say this quite bluntly, that we are
Speaker 1: all human. We all have the same inherent rights as
Speaker 1: being a human being. That it shouldn't matter about gender.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't matter about race, skin color, however you want
Speaker 1: to put. There shouldn't be no limitations to that. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be about how much money you have in
Speaker 1: the bank. Because we also see the rich corporate officers
Speaker 1: in the United States and Canada circumvent laws, circumvent the
Speaker 1: constitutions of the land in order to do what they
Speaker 1: want to do. It shouldn't be about any of those things.
Speaker 1: It should be that we are all equal because we
Speaker 1: are human beings, that we all have the same opportunities
Speaker 1: regardless of gender, cash in the bank religious beliefs. We
Speaker 1: all should be able to do that. A friend of mine,
Speaker 1: as I was picking him up from the train station
Speaker 1: and he apparently some people looked at my footwear, and
Speaker 1: we're goggled, shall we say? And he said to one person,
Speaker 1: and he's like, shoes do not make a gender, And
Speaker 1: he's right, shoes should not make a gender a gender.
Speaker 1: The gender and gender only comes into play in certain
Speaker 1: areas of our lives, and it isn't an everyday thing.
Speaker 1: We should be able by now, as civilized, intelligent, enlightened beings,
Speaker 1: to be able to look past what is a gender
Speaker 1: or what the gender rules should be. We should be
Speaker 1: creating laws that promote intelligence. We should be creating school
Speaker 1: curriculums that are open to all ideas in all histories
Speaker 1: that there should be. Our government should stop limiting us,
Speaker 1: shrink themselves so that they are no longer limiting us,
Speaker 1: so that we are enslaved to whatever corporation that owns
Speaker 1: the government at the time. All that should be abolished
Speaker 1: by now. We should all be looking inside of ourselves
Speaker 1: to find the love that is there. And we all
Speaker 1: need to stand up as the human right and dismiss
Speaker 1: the haters tell them that we are no longer going
Speaker 1: to stand for what it is that they're putting up there,
Speaker 1: that we're going to stand for love, equality and for
Speaker 1: the idea that we all can be something great just
Speaker 1: because we are. Okay, So enough of that rant had
Speaker 1: to toss it out there, because hey, well, we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking about human rights violations in today's episode.
Speaker 1: We're going to stick with the United Nations and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about Sudan humanitarian efforts. We're going to
Speaker 1: speak about Afghanistan as we're going to hear certain countries
Speaker 1: come together that are evolved in the UN Security Council
Speaker 1: as they make a statement together and in hopes that
Speaker 1: Afghanistan will hear the message and allow everyone to have
Speaker 1: the same rights. We are also going to hear about
Speaker 1: other humanitarian problems that are happening around the world from
Speaker 1: the press room in the United Nations in New York City,
Speaker 1: as they are talking about the flooding in Sudan, Libya
Speaker 1: and Occupied Palestine territories are still there. The Democratic Republic
Speaker 1: of the Congo, Ukraine, Venezuela. Food price index that is
Speaker 1: something really important, the International Food Price Index. It does
Speaker 1: have a direct on food that that is distributed throughout
Speaker 1: the entire world. So there are some of the some
Speaker 1: of the things that that we're going to hear about today.
Speaker 1: And there are still continued efforts with with the vaccines
Speaker 1: from the w h O as they continue to do
Speaker 1: work to vaccinate children in Palestine against polio and UH.
Speaker 1: Some of the things that they're going to talk about
Speaker 1: in the United Nations is also about the flooding in
Speaker 1: refuge refugee campuses across Cameroon, Chad and Mali, as there
Speaker 1: are already refugees and then we're going to see they're
Speaker 1: hit with even more devastation and occupied Palestine territory again,
Speaker 1: they're going to talk about how teams reached over three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand children in just four days with
Speaker 1: vaccinations and alike. The Democratic Republic of the Congo Peacekeeping
Speaker 1: Missions dispatched peacekeepers to protect civilians from the fighting. Ukraine.
Speaker 1: The East, the East and center of Ukraine have been
Speaker 1: particularly affected by local authorities report attacks UH today in
Speaker 1: uh Poper low Rode in the the bro region of UH,
Speaker 1: Ukraine and Venezuela Venezuela UH. The Inte International Organization of
Speaker 1: Migration UH and the Refugee Agency highly urgent need for
Speaker 1: increases support over four million Venezuela and refugees and migrants
Speaker 1: in the Americas. The Food Price Index again the world
Speaker 1: food economy price has declined slightly in August due to
Speaker 1: decreases UH and quotations of of sugar, flour, meat in Cereal.
Speaker 1: So we're going to listen to the representative for Secretary General,
Speaker 1: Turno Guerrares as he speaks more about those things and
Speaker 1: answers questions from their press from floor. So why don't
Speaker 1: we move forward, and we're going to start with a
Speaker 1: statement from the current President of the UN Security Council
Speaker 1: as he makes statements about humanitarian efforts.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well, thank you, very thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I speak in the national capacity, not in the name
Speaker 2: of the console. I think I have to make this
Speaker 2: clear at the beginning. It's an echo. What do I
Speaker 2: have to do? How I take it out? Yea, yeah, okay, okay, sorry, yeah,
Speaker 2: So I'm speaking in we still echo. I'm speaking in
Speaker 2: national capacity, and I would just want to brief you
Speaker 2: on the consultations that we had on Sudan. So we
Speaker 2: had a consultations on Sudan, Director Rosono was briefing us,
Speaker 2: especially on a humanitarian situation.
Speaker 3: And UH, I believe that majority of the Council members recognized.
Speaker 2: And welcome the decision of the Sudanese authorities to open
Speaker 2: the other crossing point for humanitarian assistance. This is something
Speaker 2: that Security Council was calling upon for months, including in
Speaker 2: the resolutions, and we we recognized and we welcome that
Speaker 2: the Sudanese authorities UH at the end open Adre, which
Speaker 2: enabled enables now delivery of humanitarian aid inside inside Therefore,
Speaker 2: so this is a new element, a positive element that
Speaker 2: we recognize and we welcome. At the same time, of
Speaker 2: course we called for this for other to remain open
Speaker 2: and for the delivery uitarian delivery to sustain. There's their
Speaker 2: huge needs.
Speaker 4: There are still.
Speaker 2: Twenty six million of people in Sudan in in food
Speaker 2: with food shortages. There is still seven million that are starving.
Speaker 2: There is still problems in the camp of some some
Speaker 2: some camp. So it's not that the problems are over,
Speaker 2: but at least we have access, there is access to
Speaker 2: to the people in need. Next, I think that everybody
Speaker 2: express or majority of the Council or we express support
Speaker 2: for the ongoing efforts, un efforts by lateral efforts, regional
Speaker 2: efforts to help parties reach UH or start discussing the
Speaker 2: cease fire and an agreement. I think we also all
Speaker 2: called on the parties to to to put additional urgent
Speaker 2: efforts and and find a solution to stop the conflict
Speaker 2: in in conflict in Sudan and we al saw several
Speaker 2: members express concern with the external interference which is still
Speaker 2: an issue and UH it's still important for the Council
Speaker 2: UH to to keep pressure or to call on the
Speaker 2: foreign actors to to stop interfering in the conflict. When
Speaker 2: I was mentioning the the mediation efforts that are ongoing,
Speaker 2: we were also briefed by the US and Switzerland about
Speaker 2: the their efforts and there was also called there were
Speaker 2: calls by the security by the members of the Council
Speaker 2: for to enhance coordination of all these mediation efforts that
Speaker 2: are ongoing. So, in principle, I think this was the
Speaker 2: discussion so that the Council remains remains ceased of the
Speaker 2: matter concerned with humanitarian situation which is still dire and
Speaker 2: and of course Visso had.
Speaker 3: A very.
Speaker 2: Dire UH briefing about about the situation, the lack of
Speaker 2: the funding and and the horrible atrocities that are continued
Speaker 2: to happen in Therefore, so it's important for the Council
Speaker 2: to remain ceased, to recognize the positive elopment about the
Speaker 2: Adre UH, but at the same time to call on
Speaker 2: the parties.
Speaker 5: To UH to to.
Speaker 2: Increase the efforts to reach the ceasefire. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 6: Panela Falk from US News and World Report. In addition
Speaker 6: to the Adre crossing opening, is there any plan to
Speaker 6: try to increase a with such desperate famine, particularly since
Speaker 6: some of the bridges.
Speaker 7: Have been crossed.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that mister Surm was briefing us on that.
Speaker 2: I think it's better if replies about those efforts. But yes,
Speaker 2: I think there are plans and they're working on other
Speaker 2: access points to deliver it. Because of the floods and
Speaker 2: everything she was mentioned in the issues and now, is
Speaker 2: there any season and problems even when the trucks come
Speaker 2: inside the country that they might get stuck on the
Speaker 2: road because of the of the huge water floods.
Speaker 8: That's you said that a majority of the council supported
Speaker 8: the opening of the country crossing that to me that
Speaker 8: there are some Council members who don't support it. Is
Speaker 8: there any reason why why you wouldn't support the opening?
Speaker 2: No, I said majority of the Council member, because I
Speaker 2: cannot speak in the name of all Council members. And
Speaker 2: I think probably we all spoke about Adre, but we
Speaker 2: didn't have agreement that I speak in the name of
Speaker 2: the console and that's why I said majority. But maybe
Speaker 2: some stress more, some stress less, but probably all of them,
Speaker 2: all of us really spoke about ad because it's a
Speaker 2: new element from the previous briefing that we had.
Speaker 8: Do you foresee any new Security Council product on Superman?
Speaker 2: At the moment, nothing is on the table. But I
Speaker 2: think we are played by year. We're playing by year
Speaker 2: and as a situation well evolved.
Speaker 5: If if there will be.
Speaker 2: If we'll have a feeling that another product would help
Speaker 2: the efforts either mediation efforts of Lamamra or others, or
Speaker 2: if it will help with the humanitarian access, then of
Speaker 2: course we will go into that. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Good morning with the Security Council members. That about strong
Speaker 9: winters in the human rights situation in Afghanistan, Ecuador, France, Guyana, Marda, Mozambique,
Speaker 9: Republic of Korea, Sera Reone, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom,
Speaker 9: the United States, and my own country, Japan have come
Speaker 9: together today to express our deep concern about the so
Speaker 9: called morality role which was announced by the Taliban reasentry.
Speaker 9: We condemned in the strongest terms the Taliban's continued systemic
Speaker 9: gender discrimination and oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.
Speaker 9: On top of these existing edicts, this new directive confirms
Speaker 9: and extends wide ranging and far reaching restrictions on personal
Speaker 9: conduct and provides inspectors with broad powers of enforcement, thus
Speaker 9: deepening the already unacceptable restrictions on the enjoyment by all
Speaker 9: Afghans of human rights and fundamental freedoms. It is raising
Speaker 9: further serious concerns among the all Afghan citizens as it
Speaker 9: will negatively impact many years of their lives. The Security
Speaker 9: Council has discussed the dire humanitarian situations in Afghanistan since
Speaker 9: the Taribans take over three years ago and has raised
Speaker 9: a united voice in multiple occasions. Among others, the Council
Speaker 9: unanimously adopted Resolution twenty six eighty one in April twenty
Speaker 9: twenty three to core for the full, equal, meaningful and
Speaker 9: safe participation of women and girls in Afghanistan. Today, we
Speaker 9: once again urge the Taliban to swiftly re reverse all
Speaker 9: the policies and practices that restrict the enjoyment by women
Speaker 9: and girls of the human rights and fundamental freedoms. The
Speaker 9: Taliban need to reason and respond to the voices of
Speaker 9: Afrighan women and girls by respecting their rights to education
Speaker 9: and for women to work, as well as the freedoms
Speaker 9: of expression and movement. It is a prerequisite for stable,
Speaker 9: peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan. We also urge all states and
Speaker 9: organizations to use their influence, in conformity with the Charter
Speaker 9: of the United Nations, to promote an urgent diverser of
Speaker 9: these policies and practices. We like to stress that the
Speaker 9: Taliban's actions of this find only undermine the international communities
Speaker 9: Air Force to engage with them, as demonstrated during the
Speaker 9: Special Voice meeting in Dhart two months ago, to realize
Speaker 9: and Afghanistan at peace with itself and its neighbors, who reintegrate,
Speaker 9: reintegrated into the international community and meeting the international obligations,
Speaker 9: Afghanistan has committed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Speaker 9: and the Party to a number of human rights treaties,
Speaker 9: particularly the Convention of Elimination of All Home Adustics Discrimination
Speaker 9: against Women ZIDO. Afghan's obligations and the international rule must
Speaker 9: be refilled. We'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate
Speaker 9: our fough support to Special Representative of the Secretary General,
Speaker 9: the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNANA and Special
Speaker 9: Rapport two on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
Speaker 9: In acring this issue. The Taliban's ban on the Special
Speaker 9: Rapper too to enter Afghanistan is disturbing and he he
Speaker 9: should be able to fully carry out his mandate. Afghanistan seasons,
Speaker 9: especially women and girls, have suffered for far too long.
Speaker 9: Day by day, Afrighan women and girls rush their opportunities
Speaker 9: and hope for their future. This is unacceptable. We are
Speaker 9: committed to doing about most to holistically address the applight
Speaker 9: and will continue to monitor the situation closely. Thank you.
Speaker 10: Can I ask you something?
Speaker 3: Young boys and men will not row to go out well.
Speaker 6: Not order to go to school. Will you do more
Speaker 6: that you'll do?
Speaker 1: Your white now talking but.
Speaker 9: Taking actions, we are you know as do you know
Speaker 9: that we are having making effort as much as possible
Speaker 9: and we continue.
Speaker 1: To do so.
Speaker 9: So that is today's you know, this event is a
Speaker 9: you know, expression of a determination. So that's what I
Speaker 9: can say.
Speaker 11: Thank you?
Speaker 12: Why did you choose this format? Why isn't the Security
Speaker 12: Council speaking out? Did you attend to get the Security
Speaker 12: Council to say something?
Speaker 2: I now give the floor to mister addji Abel.
Speaker 11: Thank you, mister President, mister President, distinguished members of the
Speaker 11: Security Council, I thank Council members for the opportunity to
Speaker 11: brief you once again on the implementation of Security Council
Speaker 11: Resolution two one one eighth of twenty thirteen on the
Speaker 11: elimination of the chemical weapons program of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Speaker 11: I am providing this briefing on behalf of the Higher
Speaker 11: Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Zumina Kamitsu, who is currently away
Speaker 11: from office since the last consideration of this matter by
Speaker 11: the Council. I'm consistent with established practice, the Office for
Speaker 11: Disarmament Affairs has been in a regular contact with its
Speaker 11: counterparts in the opc W Technical Secretariat on activities related
Speaker 11: to Resolution twenty one eighteen, Mister President. Since the Council's
Speaker 11: previous meeting on this matter, the opc W Declaration Assessment
Speaker 11: Team or THAT has continued its efforts to clarify all
Speaker 11: outstanding issues regarding the initial the declaration and subsequent declarations
Speaker 11: submitted by the Syrian Arab Republic. As was reported at
Speaker 11: the last briefing to the Council on this matter, the
Speaker 11: twenty seventh round of consultations between the DAT and the
Speaker 11: Syrian National Authority was undertaken in Damascus in May twenty
Speaker 11: twenty four. During and subsequent to this round of consultations,
Speaker 11: the DAT requested explanations from the Syrian National Authority regarding
Speaker 11: the results of analysis of samples collected by the DAT
Speaker 11: between September twenty twenty and April twenty twenty three at
Speaker 11: two formally declared chemical weapons related sites. These results indicated
Speaker 11: potentially undeclared activities related to several chemical warfare agents, including
Speaker 11: the full production cycle from research and development to production,
Speaker 11: testing and storage for two of those agents. Although the
Speaker 11: Syrian Arab Republic provided some additional information on these results,
Speaker 11: the OPCW Technical Secretariat assessed this information as insufficient. This
Speaker 11: resulted in the opening of two new outstanding issues in
Speaker 11: July twenty twenty four, raising the total number of issues
Speaker 11: from twenty four to twenty six, of which seven have
Speaker 11: been resolved and nineteen remain unresolved. This is an extremely
Speaker 11: worrying development, Mister President, I have been further informed that
Speaker 11: the Syrian National Authority did not accept the opc W
Speaker 11: Technical SECONDIAT proposals for two possible time periods for the
Speaker 11: twenty eighth round of consultations. As a result, on fourteen
Speaker 11: August twenty twenty four, the opc W Technical Secretariat informed
Speaker 11: the Syrian Arab Republic of its intention to deploy a
Speaker 11: reduced team to the Syrian Arab Republic to conduct the
Speaker 11: twenty eighth round of consultations in mid September twenty twenty four.
Speaker 11: The planned activities were also updated accordingly, as did that
Speaker 11: would not be in a position to conduct any field
Speaker 11: visits during the proposed deployment. Through a noteverable dated nineteen
Speaker 11: August twenty twenty four, the Syrian Arab Republic informed the
Speaker 11: opc W Technical Secretariat that it had no objection to
Speaker 11: receiving the data. In mid September twenty twenty four, however,
Speaker 11: I understand that negotiation of the relevant dates is still ongoing.
Speaker 11: Mister President, I have been informed that the delayed deployment
Speaker 11: of the data will have an operational impact on the
Speaker 11: planned schedule for inspections of the Barza and Jamraya facilities
Speaker 11: of the Scientific Studies and Research Center or SSRC. As
Speaker 11: of date of this month's report, the Technical Secretariat has
Speaker 11: not received any new information which may resolve the issues
Speaker 11: related to the presence of a scheduled two chemical in
Speaker 11: the sample collected during the November twenty eighteen inspection and
Speaker 11: to the origin and usage of a chemical of dual
Speaker 11: use nature observed by the inspection team during the September
Speaker 11: twenty twenty two inspection at the SSRC Barza facilities. The
Speaker 11: opc W Technical Cecretariat will further engage on these issues
Speaker 11: with the Syrian national Authority during the next round of
Speaker 11: SSRC inspections. As reported previously, the OPCW Technical Secretariat has
Speaker 11: also requested information regarding the unauthorized movement of the two
Speaker 11: cylinders related to the chemical weapons incident that took place
Speaker 11: in Duma on seventh April twenty eighteen, which were allegedly
Speaker 11: destroyed in an attack on a chemical weapons production facility.
Speaker 11: I have been informed that, as of the date of
Speaker 11: this report, the Technical Cecretariat has not received a response
Speaker 11: to this quest. Mister President, the opc W Technical Secretariat
Speaker 11: remains fully committed to implementing its mandate aimed at verifying
Speaker 11: the fulfillment of the Syrian Arab Republics declaration obligations under
Speaker 11: the Convention, decisions by the oppsid W Policy Making Organs
Speaker 11: and Security Council resolutions. However, as has been previously emphasized,
Speaker 11: full cooperation by the Syrian Arab Republic with the opc
Speaker 11: W Technical Secretariat is essential to closing all outstanding issues.
Speaker 11: Considering the identified gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies that remain unresolved
Speaker 11: at this time, the opci W Technical Secretariat assesses that
Speaker 11: the declared submitted by the Syrian Arab Republic still cannot
Speaker 11: be considered accurate and complete in accordance with the Chemical
Speaker 11: Weapons Convention. I call upon the Syrian Arab Republic to
Speaker 11: cooperate with the opc W Technical Secretariat and respond with
Speaker 11: urgency to all of the Technical Secretariat's requests. Mister Presidents
Speaker 11: have been advised that the opc w Fact Finding Mission
Speaker 11: or FFM continues to study all available information related to
Speaker 11: allegations of the use of chemical weapons in the Syria
Speaker 11: Arab Republic and will issue further reports in due course.
Speaker 11: The Investigation and Identification Team or IT also continues its
Speaker 11: investigations into incidents in which the Fact Finding Mission has
Speaker 11: determined that chemical weapons were used or likely used in
Speaker 11: the Saian Arab Republic and will issue further reports in
Speaker 11: due course. Mister President, Distinguished members of the Security Council,
Speaker 11: the United Nations will continue to support all efforts to
Speaker 11: uphold the norm against chemical weapons and to relegate these
Speaker 11: dreadful weapons to history. As the Head Representative for Disarmament
Speaker 11: Affairs has emphasized on many occasions, any use of chemical
Speaker 11: weapons is unacceptable. I also echo the secretary generous call
Speaker 11: to end impunity for all those who dare to use
Speaker 11: such weapons, especially against civilians. I urge the members of
Speaker 11: this Council to unite on this issue and show leadership
Speaker 11: in demonstrating that impunity in the use of chemical weapons
Speaker 11: will not be tolerated. The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs
Speaker 11: stands ready to provide whatever supports and assistance it can
Speaker 11: and Thank you very much for your attention.
Speaker 10: Soon to you all.
Speaker 7: After we're done, Monica will brief few on behalf of
Speaker 7: the President General Assembly. I'm going to start off with
Speaker 7: Sudan today. A quick update on our continuing efforts to
Speaker 7: deliver food assistance to communities most at risks of famine
Speaker 7: in Sudan, particularly in West Star four.
Speaker 4: Our colleagues at.
Speaker 7: The World Food Program in Sudan tell us that today
Speaker 7: trucks carrying one hundred metric tons crossed into Sudan through
Speaker 7: the Adre crossing. As you're crossed into Sudan through the
Speaker 7: Adre Tarry journal visited last week or earlier this week,
Speaker 7: excuse me. In total, the World Food Program transport over
Speaker 7: fifteen hundred metric tons of vital food and nutrition supplies
Speaker 7: over fifteen hundred metric tons of vital food and nutrition supplies,
Speaker 7: enough for nearly one hundred and thirty thousand people since
Speaker 7: the crossing reopened on August twentieth. Some of this assistance
Speaker 7: has already been delivered to Mornee in West Star four,
Speaker 7: which is an area of famine risk, where over twenty
Speaker 7: two thousand people received emergency food rations and nearly four
Speaker 7: eight hundred children and pregnant and as well as nursing
Speaker 7: women receive nutritional supplements.
Speaker 4: The rest of the assistance.
Speaker 7: It's on its way to other communities in West dar
Speaker 7: four that are also at risk of famine and those
Speaker 7: are in the Karnake and Serba areas. The convoys progress, however,
Speaker 7: has been slowed by flooded and muddy roads as this
Speaker 7: is the peak of the rainy season, as the peak
Speaker 7: excuse me as the peak of the rain season approaches
Speaker 7: and just staying in that area and on the issue
Speaker 7: of flooding. Two allocations from the Central Emergency Response Fund
Speaker 7: to share with you today. The first one from South Sudan, which,
Speaker 7: as you've seen, is facing massive floods impacting more than
Speaker 7: seven hundred thousand of people. Our acting Emergency Coordinator, Joyce Musuya,
Speaker 7: released ten million dollars to support our response there. Since May,
Speaker 7: floods have damaged homes, crops, and critical infrastructure. Education health
Speaker 7: services have also been severely disrupted. Our partners report rising
Speaker 7: malaria cases, respiratory tract infections, and acute watery diarrhea and
Speaker 7: snake bite since the onset of the rainy season. The
Speaker 7: new funds will support life saving assistance in the most
Speaker 7: affected counties that are home to some nine hundred thousand
Speaker 7: people in need of emergency aid, and this figure is
Speaker 7: likely to increase with the floods. The flooding compounds the
Speaker 7: already difficult humanitarian situation in the country. In June, we
Speaker 7: and the Government of South Sudan launched a flood Preparedness
Speaker 7: and Response plan and that for that we were seeking
Speaker 7: two hundred and sixty four million dollars to support two
Speaker 7: point four million human beings. That plan has yet to
Speaker 7: receive any funding. Zero zilch. Moving to Madagascar, which is
Speaker 7: facing a different sor and just staying on South Sudan
Speaker 7: for sorry my bad, Just moving on to Madagascar. Also
Speaker 7: on surf Missmusuria has allocated a million dollars from the
Speaker 7: Central Emergency Response Fund to mitigate the worst impact of
Speaker 7: a locust infestation in the country. More than one point
Speaker 7: two million people already facing high food insecurity in Madagascar
Speaker 7: even without the locust infection. We fear that hunger will
Speaker 7: increase during the lean season, which gets underway in October.
Speaker 7: FAO is working with the Ministry of Agriculture Madagascar to
Speaker 7: respond to the infestation. The new allocation from the Central
Speaker 7: Emergency Response Fund will allow for an additional eighty thousand
Speaker 7: hectares of land to be treated, benefiting some three hundred.
Speaker 4: Thousand people.
Speaker 7: And also just staying on the topic of flooding, our
Speaker 7: colleagues at the UN Refugee Agency say that severe flooding
Speaker 7: across Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger and Nigeria has significantly worse
Speaker 7: thened the situation of refugees and internally displaced people in
Speaker 7: those regions. The remind authorities that it is vital to
Speaker 7: ensure the needs of refugees and internally displaced people are
Speaker 7: not overlooked when national response plans are drafted. Displace families,
Speaker 7: including refugees and IDPs are facing a catastrophic situation due
Speaker 7: to the compounding effects of conflict, climate change and now
Speaker 7: devastating floods. They also need They need emergency shelter, food, order, sanitation.
Speaker 4: And medical care immediately.
Speaker 7: Our Deputy Secretary General Mina Mohammad arrived in Kegali yesterday
Speaker 7: to participate in the High Level part of the Africa
Speaker 7: Food Systems Formed Summit twenty twenty four. The High Level
Speaker 7: Summit which serves as a catalyst to advance Africa's food
Speaker 7: systems transformation in this climate and digital era, while deepening
Speaker 7: partnerships between countries. While in Kagali, she also participated in
Speaker 7: a retreat of imminent global personalities, business leaders and senior
Speaker 7: government officials to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the
Speaker 7: continent and identify solution to accelerate the achievements of the
Speaker 7: sustainable Development goals. The Deputy Secretary General met with the
Speaker 7: country team from the United Nations to take stock of
Speaker 7: the cooperation between the United Nations and Rwanda. She will
Speaker 7: be returning over to New York over the weekend and
Speaker 7: also traveling is our Undersecretary General for Political and Peace
Speaker 7: Building Affairs, Rosemary de Carlo. Will be heading to Libya
Speaker 7: from the eighth to the eleventh of September.
Speaker 4: During her visit, she will meet with.
Speaker 7: Key stakeholders to discuss the situation in the country and
Speaker 7: ways to support the Libyan and international efforts to reinvigorate
Speaker 7: the political process with a view to restoring peace, stability
Speaker 7: and unity in Libya. Moving to the Occpipacian territory, our
Speaker 7: colleagues from our Humanitarian Affairs Department tell us that after
Speaker 7: the successful completion of the polio vaccination campaign in Central Gaza.
Speaker 7: A new phase is now underway in South Gaza. The
Speaker 7: teams there aim to reach three hundred and forty thousand
Speaker 7: children in four days. UNICEF says about one hundred and
Speaker 7: sixty one thousand children were reached yesterday on the first
Speaker 7: day of the campaign in Southern Gaza. Since September one,
Speaker 7: WHO says some three hundred and fifty five thousand children
Speaker 7: have been vaccinated against polio in both the Center and
Speaker 7: Southern Gaza. OCHO says that more than five hundred vaccination
Speaker 7: teams are now deployed in Southern Gaza, including at more
Speaker 7: than three hundred and eighty mobile teams, to.
Speaker 4: Ensure that no child goes without a vaccine.
Speaker 7: Four large health facilities in Central Gaza will continue to
Speaker 7: offer the vaccine for the next few days. The third
Speaker 7: phase of the campaign is due to take place in
Speaker 7: Northern Gaza between the ninth and the eleventh of September,
Speaker 7: and that will aim to reach about one hundred and
Speaker 7: fifty thousand children under the age of ten. Meanwhile, our
Speaker 7: humanitarian colleagues say the medical evacuation of critically ill and
Speaker 7: injured patients outside of Gaza Strip remains generally suspended. Since
Speaker 7: the closure of the Rafa crossing.
Speaker 4: A four months ago.
Speaker 7: An estimated twelve thousand patients are waiting to leave Gaza
Speaker 7: to receive urgently medical urgently needed medical care. OCHA warns
Speaker 7: that limited access to clean water to sanitation facilities, coupled
Speaker 7: with the lack of affordable hygiene items is heidening the
Speaker 7: health crisis in Gaza. Just to give you example, in July,
Speaker 7: the price of soap in Gaza had reportedly increased by
Speaker 7: nearly twelve hundred percent, and that is comparing to last year.
Speaker 7: The price of shampoo had almost reached five hundred percent
Speaker 7: increase over a year ago. Our partners have been working
Speaker 7: to ensure that hundreds of thousands of hygiene kids can
Speaker 7: reach people in need, but those efforts continued to be
Speaker 7: hampered by our usual hurdles, and that includes active conflict,
Speaker 7: access restrictions, the lack of public order and safety, and
Speaker 7: evacuation orders issued by Israeli authorities. Turning to the West Bank,
Speaker 7: humanitarian colleagues report that last night Israeli forces reportedly withdrew
Speaker 7: from Janine until Karm and their refugee camps following the
Speaker 7: large scale operation that began on August twentieth. The death
Speaker 7: toll from the operation has risen to thirty six, including
Speaker 7: eight children and two elderly men. That's according to OSHA. Additionally,
Speaker 7: significant damage to civilian infrastructure, residential and livelihood shelters has
Speaker 7: been reported, deepening the people's humanitarian needs. According to initial
Speaker 7: information from our humanitarian partners, more than a thousand families
Speaker 7: in Janine were displaced and are currently sheltering in various
Speaker 7: locations across the Janine governorate. Those families need water, they
Speaker 7: need food, they need baby formula, they need medicine, and
Speaker 7: they need other essential items and supplies. Once again, we
Speaker 7: stress that Israeli forces must adhere to international law enforcement
Speaker 7: standards where lethal force and force and firearms should only
Speaker 7: be used as a last resort and only against immin
Speaker 7: threats of death or injury. And In the Democratic Republic
Speaker 7: of the Congo, our peacekeeping mission there tell us they
Speaker 7: dispatched peacekeepers to protect civilians in the Nyamusasi site for
Speaker 7: displaced people, which is located outside of Bunya in E
Speaker 7: Torri Province. This was a response to the presence of
Speaker 7: members of the Zayir Arm group in that area. Peacekeepers
Speaker 7: who were supporting the Congolese armed forces during the operation
Speaker 7: reported heavy gun fire during clashes nearby in North Kivu.
Speaker 4: Are peacekeeping colleagues.
Speaker 7: Launched a month long awareness campaign in Beni to engage
Speaker 7: community leaders on the work of the peacekeeping mission and
Speaker 7: to sensitize them on the impact of misinformation and the
Speaker 7: impact of disinformation. Moving on to Ukraine, our humanitarian colleagues
Speaker 7: tell us that hostilities and attacks continue to impact civilians
Speaker 7: and civilian infrastructure across Ukraine. The east and center of
Speaker 7: Ukraine have been particularly affected. Local authorities report that attacks
Speaker 7: today in the Povlorad and in the de Nepro region
Speaker 7: and yesterday in Kunstan the Nifkap in the Donets region
Speaker 7: resulted in many civilian casualties, including several children. Homes and
Speaker 7: infrastructure were also impacted, including two hospitals.
Speaker 4: In Caerson aid.
Speaker 7: Organizations are mobilized in providing aid, including psychological support and
Speaker 7: emergency construction material and moving to this hemisphere. In Venezuela,
Speaker 7: the International Organization for Migration and the UN Refugee Agency
Speaker 7: highlighted the urgent need for increased support for over four
Speaker 7: million Venezuela and refugees and migrants in the Americas. The
Speaker 7: Refugee in Migrant Needs Analysis reveals that despite the efforts
Speaker 7: of host countries, many migrants and many refugees continue to
Speaker 7: face significant challenges in accessing essential services as well as
Speaker 7: formal employment. They're struggling with food insecurity, limited health care access,
Speaker 7: and lack of documentation. Both agencies are calling for increased
Speaker 7: investment to save lives provide lasting, stabilization and integration opportunities
Speaker 7: for millions of refugees, migrants, as well as their host communities.
Speaker 7: Only thirteen percent of the one point five nine billion
Speaker 7: dollars requested for the twenty twenty four Regional Response Plan
Speaker 7: has so far been received.
Speaker 4: Full analysis Online.
Speaker 7: Food Price Index FAO reported that today that the benchmark
Speaker 7: for world food commodity prices declined slightly in August. This
Speaker 7: is due to decreases in quotations for sugar, meat and
Speaker 7: cereals that outweigh increases for those in vegetable oils and
Speaker 7: dairy products.
Speaker 4: The FAO Food Price.
Speaker 7: Index average at one hundred and twenty point seven point
Speaker 7: seven points in August, slightly down from revised July figure.
Speaker 7: Do you people have plans this weekend because they're a
Speaker 7: host of international days.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, we will.
Speaker 7: Observe the International Day for Clean Air for Blue Sky Eyes,
Speaker 7: though I think you will be raining here. In a message,
Speaker 7: the Secretary General says that the pollution is a silent
Speaker 7: killer that can be stopped. Investing in clean air, he says,
Speaker 7: saves lives and combats climate change. Tomorrow is the International
Speaker 7: Day of Police Cooperation. Police integrity, accountability and oversight are
Speaker 7: essential for maintaining public trust and preventing abuse of power.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow is also a World Dushen Awareness Day. Dushen muscular
Speaker 7: dystrophy is a rare progressive disorder that affects muscles.
Speaker 4: And Sunday, grab a book. You know why.
Speaker 7: It's International Literacy Day, celebrated under the theme promoting multi
Speaker 7: lingual education Literacy for mutual understanding and understanding in peace.
Speaker 7: But maybe we should do Literacy Day on Saturday because
Speaker 7: it's raining, and Blue Sky's Day on Sunday because it'll
Speaker 7: be nice.
Speaker 4: Edie.
Speaker 8: Thank you Steph. When you were talking about the convoys
Speaker 8: going through the Adre crossing into Sudan of West Darfor
Speaker 8: you didn't make any mention of elf Fasher. Is it
Speaker 8: still impossible to get near there.
Speaker 4: That's my understanding, okay.
Speaker 8: And a second question on Gaza, is there still a
Speaker 8: backlog of trucks at karen Sholam? Trying to I.
Speaker 7: Mean there's a there's still is as far as i'm
Speaker 7: a backlog of goods that have to be picked up
Speaker 7: that were dropped off as as you know, the dropped
Speaker 7: off from the Israeli side into an area on the
Speaker 7: Palestinian end, and that remains a challenge for us to
Speaker 7: get that, uh deji.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if up.
Speaker 13: So there's still backlog in Karim Shalam, But what do
Speaker 13: you have any daily numbers like inside Gaza? How many
Speaker 13: trucks they picked up? All those backlogs. I'll try, I'll
Speaker 13: try to get you.
Speaker 5: But there there is daily transfer.
Speaker 4: I mean there.
Speaker 7: Again, I think the best way to the way to
Speaker 7: describe it is is humanitarian aid through opportunity. Right, if
Speaker 7: there's an opportunity and this we feel the situation is
Speaker 7: safe for us to pick up goods, we do.
Speaker 5: So it depends on the situation. Okay. So actually my
Speaker 5: question is the polio campaign.
Speaker 13: We we know that the first phase, second phase and
Speaker 13: the maybe northern Gaza that that was due to that
Speaker 13: is due to happen in the coming days. What about
Speaker 13: the second phase, I mean the second dose of the vaccine, which.
Speaker 7: Is that would have to be done for weeks four weeks,
Speaker 7: so we will need another round.
Speaker 5: Any like, yeah, pauses, I mean one.
Speaker 7: One can only hope that by then there will be
Speaker 7: uh a broader cease fire. But in case there isn't,
Speaker 7: we will need to go through the same process and
Speaker 7: get the humanitarian pauses because the vaccine needs to have
Speaker 7: two doses.
Speaker 13: Which means so far you didn't really get promise from
Speaker 13: both parties.
Speaker 7: We we very much hope that the same plant can be.
Speaker 5: Applied, like better to have a ceasfire even.
Speaker 7: Well it would be right, it would be best to
Speaker 7: have a ceasefire, so we don't have to negotiate pauses.
Speaker 13: One last question on Gaza. Sorry border crossing. You just
Speaker 13: mentioned it's still closing. It's been quite a while. I mean,
Speaker 13: what what the uh the Israeli officials tell U N
Speaker 13: that they still need to remain that border.
Speaker 7: I think you need to talk about the state of
Speaker 7: the Gaza, the rafasing gates of which we don't have
Speaker 7: the keys. You need to have asked questions of the
Speaker 7: Israelis and of the Egyptians, Miss Selume and then Sifi,
Speaker 7: thank you step.
Speaker 12: Yesterday, the spokeswoman for the Pentagon indicated that a UN
Speaker 12: force to monitor a ceasefire in Gaza was on the
Speaker 12: table as part of the latest round of negotiations. Do
Speaker 12: you have any information on that as DPKO being consulted
Speaker 12: or asked to prepare anything. It would COG Sigrid Cog
Speaker 12: be involved in those discussions.
Speaker 4: Nothing to share with you at this point on this.
Speaker 14: SIP, Thank you Stefan. I want to ask you about
Speaker 14: the Turkish American citizen, twenty six year old is Gage
Speaker 14: was shot in the head and killed by Israeli occupation
Speaker 14: forces in Nouveless West Bank and as far as I know,
Speaker 14: that is not a war zone. What is your reaction
Speaker 14: to this?
Speaker 15: Do you condemn it?
Speaker 14: Do you have a call for the idea of who
Speaker 14: has also taken responsibility for her death?
Speaker 4: I had not heard of this case.
Speaker 7: I can tell you that with of course, we would
Speaker 7: want to see a full investigation of the circumstances and
Speaker 7: that people should be held accountable and again civilians must
Speaker 7: be must be protected at all times.
Speaker 10: I have a follow up.
Speaker 14: I fear this is becoming some sort of a pattern
Speaker 14: because you've also formally called for thorough investigations in similar
Speaker 14: incidents also where you and personnel were killed. So have
Speaker 14: you received any outputs from these investigations or do you
Speaker 14: know of any of those responsible? Have they been held accountable?
Speaker 7: We have In terms of you and personnel, we have
Speaker 7: not seen anything. I think a lot of these things
Speaker 7: will have to happen once the fighting stops. We have
Speaker 7: seen some movement towards accountability on the issue of mistreatment
Speaker 7: of Palestinian detainees, but we also very well known that
Speaker 7: number of civilian casualties have not been investigating.
Speaker 14: Just to go back to you condemn this steath like
Speaker 14: shut in the.
Speaker 10: Head, let me, I.
Speaker 7: Need to I don't have enough first, I've heard here
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 4: I will get back to you.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Uh, just one say from.
Speaker 10: Hi Steph, thank you. On mister Carlos visit to Libya,
Speaker 10: can you give us a bit more information? Is this
Speaker 10: by invitation from the government there? And who will she
Speaker 10: be meeting and what's the main message that she's carrying
Speaker 10: She will meet.
Speaker 7: The key intralocutors. I think, as you can imagine in
Speaker 7: a place like Libya. I think we will uh, we
Speaker 7: will confirm and report back on her meetings once they've
Speaker 7: actually what when they've actually happened. I think the UN's
Speaker 7: message on Libya is for is to push for all
Speaker 7: of the political actors to work together for the betterment
Speaker 7: of the lives of Libyan civilians who have been suffering
Speaker 7: for you years and years because of the lack of unity, uh,
Speaker 7: and the focus on on power struggles instead of the
Speaker 7: focus on the struggle of the people.
Speaker 10: And it is this part of her regular trips that's
Speaker 10: something prompt.
Speaker 4: I think she.
Speaker 7: Regularly travels to political missions.
Speaker 10: Yes, thank you ste My Christian. Is about Afghanistan.
Speaker 16: Today's Security Council issues a press statement of Afghan and
Speaker 16: some of them issues that joint press take also, so
Speaker 16: does the Secretary General have any comment of Afghan.
Speaker 7: So I didn't I didn't understand that the Security Council issued.
Speaker 16: The press state press statement today and then some of
Speaker 16: them are issues are joint press stakeout, so as you know.
Speaker 16: And now Afghan Uhman not only Afghan security station, so
Speaker 16: Afghan it's gonna be yet giftguard. Now, so does Secretary
Speaker 16: General have any comments the station on Ghanistan.
Speaker 7: I mean, our focus in Afghanistan is on trying to
Speaker 7: do whatever we can to improve the lives of the
Speaker 7: Afghan people, right through development work, through our humanitarian work,
Speaker 7: and also through our political work. We continue to be
Speaker 7: extremely concerned, worried, and frankly, I think devastated by the
Speaker 7: state of human rights for women and young women and
Speaker 7: girls in Afghanistan, especially the latest edicts from the de
Speaker 7: facto authorities which go in the opposite direction of what
Speaker 7: we will want to see. Our Special Representative for Afghanistan
Speaker 7: will be in New York shortly, I think to brief
Speaker 7: the Council in person, and I'm sure she will speak.
Speaker 1: To as well.
Speaker 12: But if I may follow up on my earlier question,
Speaker 12: hypothetically speaking, how long would it take to get a
Speaker 12: peacekeeping force together for a place like Gaza? And how
Speaker 12: difficult would it be to find nations who are willing
Speaker 12: to put their troops in that volatile situation?
Speaker 15: Is it even?
Speaker 1: Is it realistic?
Speaker 7: Hypothetically speaking, you probably have the answers to all the
Speaker 7: questions you've asked, and I don't you know, I really
Speaker 7: don't want to speculate on Gaza itself, but I think
Speaker 7: we all know the process of putting peacekeeping missions together,
Speaker 7: which involves first and foremost a mandate from the Security
Speaker 7: Council and then Member States stepping up and volunteering troops
Speaker 7: equipment for what is actually for what is actually needed,
Speaker 7: and then deploying those Sorry, Evelyn, I thank you, good.
Speaker 15: To see you again. A couple of questions on the
Speaker 15: quote bad guys in in Darfur? Who who is harassing
Speaker 15: the civilians? Who are the successors to the so called Jendrewe?
Speaker 4: Well, I think I would, Evelyn, I would refer you
Speaker 4: to the very.
Speaker 7: Comprehensive and frankly horrific report put out by the Independent
Speaker 7: UH Investigation Commission that was issued in Geneva today, which I.
Speaker 4: Think answers all of your questions.
Speaker 7: Thank you, and the answer I think is all those
Speaker 7: in power are of using civilians.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 15: And the second question on the same topic the UN,
Speaker 15: as very common in people watching developments in the in
Speaker 15: the Ukraine, why is it we never say where, the where,
Speaker 15: the firing and the death who's responsible?
Speaker 7: Well, I think we have been very very clear if
Speaker 7: you look at everything we've said.
Speaker 8: No, we haven't.
Speaker 1: I think we have.
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't see any other questions. Thank you all,
Speaker 7: and I will leave you in the good hands of Monica.
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