Secretary-General/Appointments, Haiti & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (14 December 2021)

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The topics: Noon briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General. Highlights: - Secretary-General/Resident Coordinators - Senior Personnel Appointment - Haiti - Mali - Ethiopia - Afghanistan/Human Rights - Afghanistan - Yemen - Iran - World Bank SECRETARY-GENERAL/RESIDENT COORDINATORS This week, the Secretary-General has convened a Global Meeting with 130 Resident Coordinators, who lead our UN teams across the globe. In a series of virtual meetings with our top leadership, including UN entity chiefs, the focus has been on helping countries accelerate action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in this Decade of Action. This morning, the Secretary-General thanked Resident Coordinators for their work to implement the reform while tackling an unprecedented pandemic, bringing the UN together to deliver on the socioeconomic response to COVID-19. He flagged the urgency to boost climate action, vaccine distribution and tackle increasing inequalities, and consolidating UN reform – in development and humanitarian contexts alike. Yesterday, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Resident Coordinators exchanged ideas and solutions on how RCs can summon the full force of UN’s assets to increase ambition, scale and pace of support to sustainable development. Over 90 per cent of host governments in countries we serve found that UN Resident Coordinators ensured a coherent UN response with the UN being more relevant to their development needs, with 77 per cent of governments also perceiving that the UN works better together now than it did before the reforms in 2018. Over the course of this week Resident Coordinators will continue to engage with a range of UN leaders to tackle the challenges of the pandemic, including around labour markets, the impact and role of women, while boosting climate change adaptation, mitigation and financing for the SDGs. SENIOR PERSONNEL APPOINTMENT The Secretary-General is appointing Joyce Msuya of the United Republic of Tanzania as Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. She succeeds Ursula Mueller of Germany, to whom the Secretary-General is deeply grateful for her leadership and dedicated service during her tenure. The Secretary‑General also wishes to extend his deep appreciation to Ramesh Rajasingham who has been serving as Acting Assistant-Secretary General in that role since March 2020. Since 2018, Ms. Msuya has served as Deputy Executive Director at the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi. HAITI Turning to Haiti, we join our colleagues there to express our deepest condolences and solidarity with the Haitian people, following the gas tanker explosion overnight in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. The UN on the ground has already mobilized to support national authorities in response to this tragic accident. MALI The UN Mission in Mali reports to us that a peacekeeping patrol today hit an Improvised Explosive Device near a camp in the Kidal Region. Preliminary reports indicate that two peacekeepers were injured and then transferred to a hospital for treatment. Today’s attack is the latest perpetrated against the UN Mission. Yesterday, another logistics convoy hit an IED near Douentza, with no casualties. Armed men also attacked three vehicles of a peacekeeping contractor along the Goundam-Timbuktu road, injuring one driver. The past weeks have been marred by a series of attacks against civilians, peacekeepers and the Malian armed forces by extremist groups in northern and central Mali. The Head of the UN Mission, El-Ghassim Wane, condemned the attacks and expressed his solidarity with the civilian population as well as peacekeepers, who continue to implement the Mission’s mandate in an extremely challenging environment and at great personal cost. He is currently visiting field offices in the Mopti, Dountza and Gao regions to assess the mitigating measures that the Mission has put in place. Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=14%20December%202021


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