Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism & other topics - Daily Briefing (21 August 2019)

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Secretary-General Travel Announcement
- International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
- Syria
- Yemen
- Security Council
- Venezuela
- Sudan
- Financial contribution
Secretary-General Travel Announcement
The Secretary-General will be departing New York on Friday, 23 August, for a three-country trip that will take him to France, Japan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
His first stop will be in France, where he will attend the G7 Summit in Biarritz.
At the Summit, the Secretary-General will participate in sessions on climate biodiversity and oceans, on fighting against inequalities and on the partnership with Africa and the Sahel.
He will also hold bilateral meetings with world leaders on the sidelines of the Summit.

The Secretary-General will travel then to Yokohama, in Japan, on the evening of Tuesday, 27 August, to participate in the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). That meeting is led by the Japanese Government and co-sponsored by the United Nations, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the African Union Commission (AUC) as well as the World Bank.
The Secretary-General will speak at the opening session, a special conference on peace and stability in the Horn of Africa and the neighbouring region, and a thematic session on climate change and disaster risk reduction.
While in Japan, he will meet with the country’s Prime Minister, Mr. Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono, as well as with a number of heads of State and government attending TICAD.

Then, on Saturday, 31 August, the Secretary-General is scheduled to arrive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a three-day visit to take stock of and mobilize additional support for the response to the Ebola outbreak.
In the province of North Kivu, he is scheduled meet with Ebola survivors and health workers during a visit to an Ebola Treatment Center. While in the country’s east, the Secretary-General will also assess the implementation, by the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) and the Intervention Brigade, of its mandate to protect civilians and support the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to consolidate peace and stabilize the DRC.
The Secretary-General will then go on to Kinshasa to meet with the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, and other government officials, members of the opposition and representatives from civil society organizations.
He is expected back in New York on 3 September.

International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
This morning, the Secretary-General spoke at the opening of a photo exhibition to mark the second International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.
He reiterated that the “threat of terrorism and violent extremism is among our most complex challenges”, and paid tribute to the innocent victims of attacks around the world.
The Secretary-General said he was deeply moved by the courage and resilience of survivors of terrorist attacks that he met earlier in the year. Their message was clear and simple, he said. People and communities need to become closer to grow stronger and turn these harrowing experiences into powerful and positive forces for change.
He concluded his remarks by calling for more support for victims and survivors of terrorism, notably by finding innovative ways to support the victims’ rights to justice, reparations, healing and livelihoods.
The photo exhibit – titled “Surviving Terrorism: The Power of Resilience”, is going to be on display in the Secretariat lobby through the end of the month.
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