UN daily press briefing: child marriage and other topics
This is a UN daily noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General.
It covers Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangladesh, Australia and Timor-Leste, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, child marriage, food assistance, Darfur and the UN Honour Roll.
Highlights
- The UN special envoy meets representatives of Iran, Russia and Turkey to discuss the conflict in Syria.
- Yemen: the UN warns that some 77,000 people have been newly displaced over the past four months.