Climate, Sudan, Malaysia & other topics - Daily Press Briefing ( 4 June 2024)

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Published Jun 22, 2024

Noon briefing by Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Highlights:
- Secretary-General Climate
- Sudan
- Malaysia
- UNHCR Report
- Guest Today and Tomorrow
- Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Women Peace and Security Report
- International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

SECRETARY-GENERAL
The Secretary-General is in Washington DC today.
He just wrapped up a meeting with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. They had a good meeting. They discussed the situation in Israel and Palestine, and the broader region. They also discussed Sudan and Ukraine.
And we may have a more comprehensive readout, because the meeting literally just wrapped up.
The Secretary-General will be back here later today.

CLIMATE
Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the Secretary-General will deliver a special address at the American Museum of Natural History on climate change, where he will set out some hard-hitting truths about the state of the climate.
He will also share new data from the World Meteorological Organization and the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
He will be joined by his Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions, Michael Bloomberg, and Sean M. Decatur, President of the Museum of Natural History.
If you can’t join us in person, and I believe we have received all the RSVPs that we could have, the speech will be broadcast on UN Web TV so you can follow it live.

OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Turning to the situation in Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warn that access constraints continue to undermine the safe delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance throughout Gaza, worsening the needs of hundreds of thousands of people.
UNICEF warns that if nutrition supplies cannot be distributed, the treatment of more than 3,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition will be interrupted.
Amid the ongoing military incursion in Rafah, the World Health Organization says that the United Arab Emirates field hospital in Rafah city is the only facility providing health services in the area. However, WHO warns that ongoing hostilities are making it increasingly difficult to reach this place.
Meanwhile, our colleagues at UNRWA report that families and children are having to walk long distances in the heat for water. Critical desalination plants in Gaza have shut down, amid severe fuel shortages.

Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=04%20June%202024