International Pledging Conference in Mozambique & other topics - Daily Briefing (31 May 2019)

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the President of the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Highlights:
- Secretary-General travels
- Deputy Secretary-General travels
- Mozambique
- Madagascar
- Libya
- Yemen
- No Tobacco Day
- No Plastic
- Correction
SG TRAVELS
The Secretary-General will travel on 5 June to St. Petersburg in the Russian Federation, where he will participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which begins in that city on the following day.
The forum will be a venue where the Secretary-General can talk to leaders about implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.  The theme of this year’s forum is “Creating a Sustainable Development Agenda”.
The Secretary-General will travel back to New York on 8 June.

DSG TRAVELS
This evening, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, will depart New York for London to attend the Our Shared Humanity meetings of the United Nations Association-UK and Chatham House. Those meetings will take place on 3 and 4 June.
The Deputy Secretary-General will also be meeting with senior officials and other stakeholders on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals while in London.

MOZAMBIQUE
The United Nations is supporting the Government of Mozambique, which is convening a pledging conference for recovery and reconstruction in the wake of the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth.
Two strong tropical cyclones hit Mozambique and the Southern Africa region in the same season for the first time in recorded history.
The pledging conference, which began today, is bringing together 500 representatives from governments, international organizations, development partners, the private sector and civil society.
The Secretary-General will have a message for the conference tomorrow in which he will reiterate his appeal to the generosity of the international community, noting that this is the moment to translate into concrete gestures our solidarity with Mozambique. He will also stress how the cyclones warn us about the urgency of tackling climate change.
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