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Culture of Peace & other topics - Daily Briefing (13 September 2019)

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Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Syria
- Secretary-General's travel
- Deputy Secretary-General's travel
- Culture of Peace
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Mali
- El Salvador
- Bangladesh
- Education
- Yemen
- General Assembly
- Contributions
SYRIA
I will start off with a statement on the Board of Inquiry for northwest Syria.
As announced on 1 August, the Secretary-General has established an internal United Nations Headquarters Board of Inquiry to investigate a series of incidents that have occurred in northwest Syria since the signing of the Memorandum on Stabilization of the Situation in the Idlib De-escalation Area between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey on 17 September 2018.
The Board will be led by Lieutenant General Chikadibia Obiakor of Nigeria and it will also include as other members Ms. Janet Lim of Singapore and Ms. Marta Santos Pais of Portugal.  The Board will review and investigate a number of specific incidents in which there was destruction of, or damage to, facilities on the UN deconfliction list and on UN-supported facilities in the area. The work of the Board will be supported by two senior experts - Major General Fernando Ordóñez of Peru and Mr. Pierre Ryter, the former International Committee of the Red Cross – Head of Regional Delegation, and he is from Switzerland. 
The Board will commence its work on 30 September. It will ascertain the facts of the specific incidents concerned and report to the Secretary-General once it completes its work. 
The Secretary-General urges all parties concerned to extend their full cooperation to the Board.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S TRAVEL
The Secretary-General is on his way to Nassau in the Bahamas. He is expected to meet with Prime Minister Hubert Minnis this afternoon. As he told you yesterday, this is a visit to show the UN's solidarity with the Government and people of the Bahamas after the onslaught of Hurricane Dorian.
While in Nassau, the Secretary-General will visit a shelter for hurricane evacuees, as well as the operations centre of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
Tomorrow, he is expected to visit the areas hit by Hurricane Dorian on Abaco Island.
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