World Environment Day & other topics - Daily Briefing (05 June 2018)

Daily Press Briefing: General Assembly, Development, Yemen, Guatemala, Tunisia, World Environment Day, Illegal Fishing, and ECOSOC NGO
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- U.N. CHIEF CONGRATULATES MARÍA FERNANDA ESPINOSA GARCÉS FROM ECUADOR ON ELECTION AS NEXT PRESIDENT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- IN BRUSSLES, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
- YEMEN: U.N. ENVOY URGES PARTIES TO RESTART POLITICAL PROCESS AND DE-ESCALATE VIOLENCE
- GUATEMALA REQUESTS U.N. MISSION TO ASSES HUMANITARIAN NEEDS AFTER VOLCANO ERUPTION
- U.N. AGENCIES ASSISTING MIGRANTS WHO SURVIVED BOAT CAPSIZING OFF TUNISIAN COAST
- ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, U.N. CALLS ON COUNTRIES TO END PLASTIC POLLUTION
- U.N. MARKS FIRST INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE FIGTH AGAINST ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED FISHING
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED IN KAGA BANDORO TOWN
- AFGHANISTAN: U.N. CHIEF CONDEMNS SUICIDE ATTACK TARGETING RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS
- U.N. RIGHTS OFFICE CONCERNED BY U.S. POLICY SEPARATING FAMILIES AT BORDER, WELCOMES END OF STATE OF EMERGENCY IN ETHIOPIA
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