Syria & Other Topics - Daily Briefing (14 February 2020)

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

Highlights:

- Secretary-General Travels To Pakistan
- Deputy Secretary-General Travel
- Syria
- WFP Syria
- Central African Republic
- Mali
- Locusts
- Security Council
- IPU Annual Parliamentary Hearing

SECRETARY-GENERAL TRAVELS TO PAKISTAN
Starting this weekend, the Secretary-General will be in Pakistan. He will be arriving on Sunday in Islamabad, and will hold bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Hussain Qureshi and he will also speak at an event on sustainable development and climate change. That is all on Sunday.
On Monday, the Secretary-General will speak at the International Conference on 40 Years of Hosting Afghan Refugees in Pakistan. That event is being organized by the Government of Pakistan as well as UNHCR. The Secretary-General, along with the High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and the Foreign Minister, will also hold a press event.  
He will also meet with the President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, on Monday.
And on Tuesday, he will be in Lahore, where he will meet with students and attend an event on Pakistan’s polio vaccination campaign. He will also travel to Kartarpur to visit a holy site, Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib.
The Secretary-General will be back in New York on Wednesday.

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TRAVEL
The Deputy Secretary-General will be travelling to London from the 15th to the 17th of February 2020, to meet with the UK leadership team preparing the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26), which is scheduled for late November in Glasgow.
On the 17th, she will travel to Brussels, to meet with the newly appointed EU leadership, also on Climate and International Partnership          
And she will be back in New York on 19th.

Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/conte....nt/noon-briefing-hig