Ukraine: Humanitarian Consequences -UN Humanitarian Chief Briefing Security Council | United Nations

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The topics: In terms of humanitarian consequences, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said that homes and civilian infrastructure - bridges, hospitals, schools – have been damaged and destroyed. More than 11 million people have now been forced to flee their homes, of whom more than 4.2 million are now refugees in generous neighboring countries. In total, more than a quarter of Ukraine’s population has fled. “And, unfortunately, these figures will continue to rise, until we can find a pause and some peace,” he said. Last month, the Secretary-General asked Griffiths to bring both sides together, on humanitarian grounds, to explore specific and sustained 5 ways to reduce humanitarian suffering, including pursuing a humanitarian ceasefire. Today, the Humanitarian chief was briefing the Council having just returned from Moscow, where he had “long and frank” exchanges with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov and his Deputy, Sergei Vershinin, and separately with the Deputy Minister of Defence. “My counterparts in Moscow received these suggestions and assured me of their intent to carefully study those ideas, which I left with them, and we agreed to remain in close contact. I came away from these meetings believing that we have a long road ahead of us, but it must be travelled, and, Madam President, we will travel it,” Griffiths recounted. On Wednesday, he hopes to travel to Ukraine to lead discussions with senior authorities from the Ukrainian government on these same issues, and to see first-hand the humanitarian response.


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