Ebola outbreak & other topics - Daily Briefing (14 June 2019)

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- League of Arab States
- Ebola
- Security Council
- South Sudan
- Libya
- International Days
League of Arab States
As some of you just saw, the Secretary-General met just now with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States.
In a press encounter following that meeting, the Secretary-General underscored the strong relationship between the United Nations and the League of Arab States, which he said has recently taken a quantum leap, notably with the opening of a UN liaison office in Cairo to the League of Arab States.  The Secretary-General reiterated his message from yesterday that the truth needs to be established regarding the incident in the Gulf of Oman and that the last thing the region needs today is another confrontation.

Ebola
An ebola update for you. In Geneva, the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee met today to assess whether the outbreak constitutes an international public health emergency. We expect their recommendations to be issued in a few minutes.
For those who want more details, a virtual press conference organized by WHO is scheduled to begin at 1 pm our time. You can call in from the US. WHO also said they would broadcast the press conference from their Twitter account @WHO.
In addition to this, the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Adhanom Ghebreyesus has arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He spent the day in Kinshasa and met authorities, UN colleagues and he will be there for a few more days.
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