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International Mother Earth Day & other topics - Daily Briefing (22 April 2019)

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Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Secretary-General's Travel
- Earth Day
- Libya
- Mali
- Russia
- Bangladesh
- Iran
- Indigenous Issues
- Climate
- Sri Lanka
- UNDOF
- Ebola
- Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
SECRETARY-GENERAL’S TRAVELS
The Secretary-General will depart New York on Wednesday, 24 April, to travel to Beijing in China, to take part in the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.
On the morning of Friday, 26 April, he will deliver remarks at the Forum’s opening ceremony.
The following day, on the 27th, he will deliver remarks and participate in a Leader’s Roundtable on “Promoting green and sustainable development to implement the 2030 Agenda.”
While in Beijing, the Secretary-General is expected to meet with President Xi Jinping, the Premier of the State Council, Li Keqiang, and State Councilor and Minister for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, and other senior officials, as well as with leaders also attending the Forum.
The Secretary-General will return to New York late on Saturday.

EARTH DAY
Today is Mother Earth Day. 
The Secretary-General urged people to take climate action in every way they can, not just on Earth Day but every day. He also linked to a video which stresses that we only have one Earth and we need to protect it.
This year’s theme is ‘Education and Climate Change’, and this morning there was an interactive dialogue to discuss the theme, and that was attended by the President of the General Assembly as you heard.

LIBYA
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Ghassan Salame, is continuing his efforts to advocate for de-escalation in Libya. Earlier today, he met with Tunisian Foreign Minister Khamis Jhinaoui in Tunis, with whom he discussed developments related to the clashes in southern Tripoli. Both asserted that the UN-facilitated political process is the ideal and only way to solve the Libyan crisis.
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