The Situation in Mali & other topics - Daily Briefing (19 June 2019)

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Highlights
-Secretary-General Travel
-Refugees
-Mali
-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
-Security Council
-Syria
-Sexual Violence in Conflict
-Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General Travel
I’ll start off with a trip announcement. The Secretary-General will be in Geneva this Friday for the closing session of the International Labour Conference. This session also marks the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO), one of the oldest members of the UN family. This Sunday, the Secretary-General will attend the World Conference of Youth Ministers in Lisbon, in Portugal, and he will be accompanied by his own Youth Envoy [Jayathma Wickramanaye]. Also, on Sunday, the Secretary-General expects to hold a press encounter, along with his Youth Envoy and the Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Costa, and he will be returning… back in New York on Monday.
Refugees
In a short while, I will be joined by Ninette Kelley, the Director of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in New York. She will be here to brief you on the launch of UNHCR’s Global Trends Report. For his part, the Secretary-General notes that the findings of this report confirm once again that more and more people are forced to flee from conflict or persecution. He reiterates that the solution to this crisis will not be humanitarian. What we need is the will to work towards political solutions to solve the conflicts that are the source of this displacement.
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