United Nations published this video item, entitled “Outer Space, former Yugoslavia, Sudan & other topics – Daily Press Briefing (31 May 2023)” – below is their description.
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
Outer Space
Former Yugoslavia
Sudan
Ukraine
Cambodia
Myanmar
Central African Republic
Cameroon
DPRK
Uganda
World No Tobacco Day
Noon Guest/Briefing Tomorrow
OUTER SPACE
Today, the Secretary-General published a policy brief on outer space governance, the seventh in the Our Common Agenda series that is aimed at informing Member States ahead of the Summit of the Future next year.
The brief was released to coincide with today’s start of the session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
In the policy brief the Secretary-General says we must ensure that effective governance is in place to propel innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The brief also outlines a number of recommendations for Member States and the UN system relating to the sustainability, security, and governance of outer space.
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
You may have seen that in a press release earlier today, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals concerning the delivery of the appeal judgement in the case against Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović.
The Secretary-General takes note of this appeal and extends his thoughts to the victims, and survivors and their families who have suffered from the crimes for which both defendants have been found guilty.
The judgement marks the conclusion of the last case relating to core crimes that the Mechanism inherited from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which as you will recall was established in 1993 to prosecute persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991.
The Secretary-General commends the judges and staff involved in this case for their unfaltering dedication and hard work since 2003, when the first indictment was filed.
SUDAN
A number of you have been asking me this morning about Sudan and the closed consultation this afternoon, I can confirm that the Secretary-General did, indeed, ask to brief Security Council members on the dramatic situation in Sudan, that will be done in closed consultations this afternoon.
And moving on to situation on the ground, the International Organization for Migration says more than 1.2 million people have been displaced inside Sudan as a result of the conflict. IOM’s estimates are based on preliminary reports from field teams, while additional reports are likely to emerge as humanitarian access improves.
To help those in need, we and our partners continue to deliver aid wherever and whenever we can.
The World Food Programme continued its distributions in Khartoum State, reaching 15,000 people trapped in the Omdurman area with emergency food.
Across the country, WFP has now reached more than 782,000 men, women and children with food and nutrition support over the past four weeks.
The agency is also providing emergency telecommunications services to all of the UN system and the wider humanitarian community in Sudan, where – as you can imagine – basic connectivity remains very much a challenge.
As the UN Population Fund has started to provide life-saving medicines and reproductive health supplies to maternity hospitals in Wad Medani in Al-Jazirah state. Medical teams at this hospital are also providing reproductive health services to women and girls who have fled from the capital, Khartoum.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=31%20May%202023
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