Stockholm +50, Yemen, Sudan & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (31 May 2022)

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Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Highlight:
- Stockholm+50
- Yemen
- Sudan
- Sudan (FAO)
- East Africa
- Mali
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Syria
- Ukraine
- Ukraine/Journalists
- Shireen Abu Akleh
- World No Tobacco Day
- Western Sahara
- Briefing Tomorrow

STOCKHOLM+50 
The Secretary-General will go to Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon, to attend the Stockholm +50 conference, which is being hosted by Sweden with support from the Government of Kenya. He will urge countries to embrace the human right to a clean, healthy environment for all people, everywhere – especially poor communities, women and girls, indigenous peoples, young people and the generations to come. On the margins of the conference, he will meet with representatives of the Stockholm+50 Youth Task Force.  
Tomorrow, he will meet with Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and visit Dag Hammarskjöld’s gravesite. 

YEMEN  
The Secretary-General had a phone call with H.E. Mr. Rashed Al-Alimi, the President of the Presidential Leadership Council of the Republic of Yemen, to discuss the implementation of the United Nations-brokered truce and political and security developments in Yemen.
The Secretary-General reaffirmed the close relationship between the United Nations and the Government of Yemen and stressed the need to extend and fully implement all elements of the renewable, two-month nationwide truce in Yemen. The Secretary-General also underscored the critical role of the truce in addressing some of the most immediate humanitarian and economic needs to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people, including facilitating the freedom of movement of people and goods to, from and across Yemen.
The UN Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, met Mr. al-Alimi in Aden yesterday. He also met in Muscat today with Ansar Allah's chief negotiator Mohammed Abdulsalam and Omani officials. Mr. Grundberg underlined the urgency of re-opening the roads in Taiz and elsewhere in Yemen, renewing the truce and taking meaningful steps to comprehensively end the conflict in Yemen.

SUDAN
The UN welcome the lifting of the state of emergency in Sudan. This is an important step to create a conducive environment for direct, intra-Sudanese talks to end the political crisis in the country. 
We encourage the authorities to complete the release of political detainees.
We continue to call on them to fully respect the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression.
We urge Sudanese stakeholders to engage in constructive dialogue in good faith to find a way out of this crisis.
The trilateral mechanism consisting of the UN Mission in Sudan, UNITAMS, the African Union and the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) will continue to work collaboratively to help facilitate a Sudanese owned and led solution and to find a way to end the political impasse in Sudan.

Full Highlights:
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