UN daily briefing, 6 March 2018: child marriage and other topics
This is the noon press briefing of 6 March 2018, given by Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General. Among other topics, UNICEF reported that child marriage is decreasing worldwide.
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The briefing covered 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 honour roll.
Highlights
- The UN special envoy met representatives of Iran, Russia and Turkey to discuss the conflict in Syria.
- Yemen: the UN warned that some 77,000 people had been newly displaced over the past four months.
- The UN launched a $569 million humanitarian response plan for Iraq.
- A senior UN official was to visit Sri Lanka that week.
- A UN official said the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya from Myanmar was continuing.
- The UN teamed up with a nature conservation organisation to protect Rohingya refugees from elephants near a settlement.
- Australia and East Timor were to sign a maritime boundaries treaty under UN auspices.
- A UN official praised reform efforts by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- UNICEF: child marriage is decreasing globally.
- A UN agency said 37 countries need food assistance.
- Anita Kokui Gbeho of Ghana was appointed Deputy Joint Special Representative for the African Union–UN mission in Darfur.