International Mine Awareness Day & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (4 April 2019)

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Daily Press Briefing:
- Noon Briefing Guests
- Secretary-General in Libya,
- Deputy Secretary-General's Travels,
- Mali,
- Burkina Faso,
- South Sudan,
- Sudan,
- Syria,
- Sanitation Message,
- World Health Statistics
NOON BRIEFING GUEST TODAY
Today, we are honouring what day? International Mine Awareness Day, so, in a short while, I will be joined by Agnès Marcaillou, who, as you well know, is the Director of the UN Mine Action Service. She will be joined by Ambassador Fatima Kyari, the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, addressing the situation of landmines and explosive hazards in Africa, as well as Ambassador Mona Juul, the Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations, representing the Presidency of the 4th Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC). So, as soon as we are done here.

SECRETARY-GENERAL IN LIBYA
As you all well know, the Secretary-General is in Tripoli today, and you will have seen that, in light of recent developments this morning, he tweeted out that he was deeply concerned by the military movement taking place in Libya and the risk of confrontation. “There is no military solution,” he said. “Only intra-Libyan dialogue can solve Libyan problems. I call for calm and restraint as I prepare to meet the Libyan leaders in the country,” the Secretary-General said.
In about an hour or so, we expect him to have some sort of a press encounter with the media there, and we will be sending you a transcript as soon as we have that.

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S TRAVELS
And later today, the Deputy Secretary-General will depart for Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, where she will meet with Senior Government officials and United Nations colleagues and will also speak at the 2019 Ibrahim Governance Weekend.
On 7 April, she will be in Beirut in Lebanon, to attend the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia’s (ESCWA) Arab Forum for Sustainable Development and the Regional Coordination Mechanism, as well as meet with the Resident Coordinators from the Arab and Middle East region.
The Deputy Secretary-General will be back in New York on 10 April, and, as you just saw, she launched the Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2019 and we will be putting out her remarks shortly on that.
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