PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefingOpens in new window, which was attended by the spokesperson of the World Health Organization.
Announcements
Rhéal LeBlanc, for the United Nations Information Service, informed that the 9th Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention Opens in new window was continuing today. The meeting was public and being webcast at webtv.un.orgOpens in new window. For the moment, there were no media activities scheduled around the conclusion of the Conference, but correspondents would be informed promptly should this change.
He also stated that 18 December would be the International Migrants Day, on which occasion the Secretary-General had issued a messageOpens in new window. The Secretary-General said that on this Day, we reflected on the lives of the over 280 million people who had left their country in the universal pursuit of opportunity, dignity, freedom, and a better life. Migrant rights were human rights, and they had to be respected without discrimination – and irrespective of whether their movement was forced, voluntary, or formally authorized.
Responding to a question, Margaret Harris, for the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the IHR Emergency Committee Opens in new window on COVID-19 would be meeting again in mid to late January 2023, prior to 30 January.
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