Joint Statement of Ireland and Norway at the UNSC Briefing on Syria - Humanitarian
Statement 23 June 2021
Mr President,
I make this statement on behalf of the co-penholders of the Syrian humanitarian file, Norway and Ireland. We would like to thank UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham, and the CARE Turkey Country Director Ms Sherine Ibrahim, for their briefings which we have just heard.
This year we marked ten years of conflict in Syria, a conflict that has caused enormous suffering for the Syrian people and created a deeply embedded humanitarian crisis which continues to worsen.
Press Conference on the Situation in Burkina Faso Preview Language: English 04-Mar-2021 00:12:18 Press conference by Ramesh Rajasingham, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on the situation in Burkina Faso.
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04 MARCH 2021, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham at the dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramesh Rajasingham, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We need to scale up the life-saving response now to meet growing humanitarian needs in many parts of the country. We’ve had increasing vulnerability, more displacement, that we need to address. And secondly, we must act to prevent - credible solutions, sustainable solutions – to prevent this from becoming a protracted crisis with no end point in sight.”
Michael Bloomberg had been reappointed as the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions.
The Secretary-General, along with COP26 UK President Alok Sharma, will brief the Member States on the road to Glasgow.
The Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, joined Graꞔa Machel at the virtual Global Inter-Generational Dialogue (IGD), organized by Global Peace.
On Ethiopia, our humanitarian colleagues on the ground tell us the situation across Tigray continues to be extremely alarming and to deteriorate rapidly.
Next week, Ramesh Rajasingham, the Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, will begin a four-day visit to Burkina Faso and Senegal.