PRESS CONFERENCE

Press Conference with David Shearer, Special Representative for the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), on updates on the situation in South Sudan.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on the launch of a new IFRC report on the future humanitarian cost of climate change - The Cost of Doing Nothing.

Gwyn Lewis, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank, and in the centre is Peter Mulrean, Director of UNRWA Representative Office in New York, and Matthias Schmale (right), Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Operations in Gaza, brief press on the current humanitarian situation in the region.

Mansour Al-Otaibi, Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of June, briefs press on the programme of work for the Security Council.

Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada; Roberto Ampuero, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile; Néstor Popolizio, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, brief press on crisis in Venezuela.

Luis Alfonso de Alba, Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit, briefs reporters as a guest at the noon briefing.

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, briefs reporters on the occasion of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (29 May). To his right is Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.

Kim Song, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, holds a press conference.

Dawn Holland (right), Chief of the Global Economic Monitoring Branch of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), briefs press on the launch of the World Economic Situation and Prospects mid-year update. With her is Elliot Harris (centre), UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development. Moderator at left is Dan Shepard, Information Officer at the UN.

Press Briefing on the upcoming ‘Play it Out’ Concert to beat plastic pollution