Rwanda, Palestine, Lebanon & other topics - Daily Press Briefing | United Nations

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

Highlights:
-Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
-Security Council
-Occupied Palestinian Territory
-Lebanon
-Syria
-Yemen
-Ukraine
-Special Envoy on Myanmar
-Myanmar
-Afghanistan
-Sudan
-Democratic Republic of the Congo
-Haiti
-World Health Day

DAY OF REFLECTION ON THE 1994 GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI IN RWANDA
Today, this is the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. At this morning’s event in the General Assembly to mark the Day, the Secretary-General said that this terrible period of Rwanda’s history reminds us that no society is immune from hate and horror. And as we reflect on how these crimes came about, we must also reflect on resonance in our own times.
The Secretary-General added that we must stem the tide of hate speech and stop division and discontent that is mutating into violence.
And he also issued a message on the day in which he urged all States to deliver on their commitments made in the Global Digital Compact to tackle online falsehoods and hate, to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law, and to become parties to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

SECURITY COUNCIL
This morning the Security Council heard a briefing on the Heads of Military Components Conference, which is currently taking place in New York.
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the head of our peace operations department, said this annual gathering is an opportunity to reaffirm our shared commitment to peace and security through the critical work of United Nations peacekeeping.
He was joined by two Force Commanders, Major General Aroldo Lázaro, Head of Mission and Force Commander of our peacekeeping mission in Lebanon -UNIFIL-, as well as Lieutenant General Ulisses de Mesquita Gomes, the Force Commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
General Lazaro was here in person and General Gomes was briefing via video.

Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon...