Just waiting for @UN_Spokesperson@StephDujarric. Will be interesting to see if there is any readout remarks/and or questions about the swearing in of the Govt. And whether the UN is continuing to maintain the position that the officials should be allowed back.
Here he is.
Much improved language in the readout on Northern Ethiopia.
Including a report from the WFP (not provided in this morning's briefing from the WFP Geneva from my recollection) that WFP food has reached 300,000 people in Amhara and Afar.
2nd Question:
@UN_Spokeperson: UN has no new information on the reasons for the Ethiopian Expulsions. Aid deliveries are continuing but are being frustrated.
1st question on DRC. 3rd Question on Taiwan. 4th Question on Cyprus.
And that was it. Seemed a bit odd.
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The appearance by @antonioguterres at the end of the meeting is perhaps the most striking bit of all of this.
"It is my duty to defend the honour of the United Nations," he said when asked about his "right of reply" at end.
VIDEO: (Beginning 2:36mins) media.un.org/en/asset/k17/k…
"The UN has no political agenda in Ethiopia. Our agenda is just one to support the Ethiopian people, Tigrayans, Amaharas, Afaris, Somalis, that have suffered so much. We cannot see people going on dying, because of bullets, because of hunger...
"... we need to do everything to stop this conflict. We need to do everything to ensure that humanitarian aid is distributed everywhere to everybody. We need to do everything for a dialogue to be established among Ethiopians to solve the problems in Ethiopia."
The @UN_Spokesperson's insubstantive remarks on Ethiopia at today's media briefing was likely indeference UNSG @antonioguterres, who has chosen to make it the focus of the UNSC centerpiece of the day, the consultation on "Peace and Security in Africa".
Estonia followed Ireland, so far the statements have been very predictable. Reiterating and reinforcing existing flawed understanding of what has been, and is happening in Ethiopia.
France speaking now, says Obasanjo is in Paris tomorrow to talk to the French. A short formulaic statement also.
The US debate over Facebook regulation is mostly focused on the impact of dangerous, unmoderated hate speech inside the U.S. @SPP_FI raises important questions about global regulation of the hate speech giant.
The rest of the developed world barely gets any attention from @Facebook let alone the developing world, where it is huge and plays a significantly greater role in political communications than it does in the west.
In NZ in 2019, a lone Australian gunman killed 51 people on a rampage through two mosques in Christchurch, where I went to school. His shooting spree was streamed live on Facebook on thousands of pages and groups. It was far and away the largest terror event ever in NZ.
The main feature we see in this animation is a cold dry air blast coming in from the east and colliding with a high pressure system located initially roughly speaking over the Bay of Biscay. The water concentration over the Med/Italy Alps suggests significant precipitation there.
This forecast shows the very complicated evolution of water transport over this five day period - JetStream 11-18km high winds carrying elevated moisture into Europe from the North Atlantic.