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Good, that's right, good afternoon. We the UK, Denmark, France, Greece and Slovenia called for today's urgent meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Gaza. First, we want to welcome the release of Idan Alexander yesterday and reiterate our call for all of the remaining hostages who have been cruelly held by Hamas for over eighteen months to be released immediately. Their suffering must end. The Security Council has been consistent and clear on this since the brutal
terror attack on the seventh of October. Hamas must have no future role in Gaza or be in a position to threaten Israel. Israel has now fully blocked AID entering Gaza for over two months. Blocking AID as a pressure lever is unacceptable, and last week the Israeli Security Cabinet
approved plans to expand its military operations in Gaza. We strongly oppose both these actions, which will add to Palestinian suffering while doing nothing to serve the long term interests of peace and security in the region, nor to secure the safe return of the hostages. Any attempt by Israel to annex land in Gaza would be unacceptable and violate international law. Palestinian territory must not be reduced nor subjected
to any demographic change. On the humanitarian situation, the World Food Program have told us they already have no food left. Palestinian civilians, including children, face starvation as a result. Just yesterday, the IPC released a report warning that Gaza's entire population is already at critical risk of famine without an urgent lifting of the aid bloc. More Palestinians are at risk of dying deaths that could easily be avoided. Humanitarian aid must never be used as a political tool or a
military tactic. We're also deeply concerned at proposals to establish a new mechanism for the delivery of aid, which the UN has said would not meet humanitarian purposes principles. International law requires Israel to allow and facilitate the safe, rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian aid and ensure that basic services are provided for all Ghazan civilians. This applies to all armed conflicts around the world. Gaza is not an exception.
We have two clear messages for the government of Israel. Lift the block on aid entering Gaza now and enable the UN and all humanitarians to save lives. Any model for distributing humanitarian aid must be independent, impartial and neutral and in line with international humanitarian law and principles. We cannot support any model that places political or military objectives above the needs of civilian or that undermines the UN
and other partner's ability to operate independently. We are also outraged by the killing of Palestinian Red Crescent workers and the hit on a UN compound on the nineteenth of March. Humanitarian aid workers and UN premises must be protected. We call on Israel to complete and release the findings of its investigation into the UN compound incident and take concrete action to ensure this can never happen again. At least four hundred and eighteen AID workers have been killed in
Gaza since the conflict began. That is at least four hundred and eighteen too many. We urge Israel to investigate all incidents transparently, to be clear on the steps taken to hold those responsible to account, and reinstate an infective deconfliction system. The only way to end the suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis is for an immediate return to a ceasefire, the release of all the hostages, and to
urgently advance efforts to achieve a two state solution. This is the only way to achieve long term peace and security for both Palestinians and Israelis. And we welcome France and Saudi Arabia's leadership in sharing an international conference on the two state solution here in New York in June. I.
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So the purpose of the Security Council meeting today, when we'll have briefings from CHER and the World Food Program, is to talk about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. We'll move on to other considerations, but today's focus is the humanitarian situation.
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So this is the aid mechanism that is currently being discussed, was put forward, i think, initially by Israel and is now being considered by the United States, and the UN is concerned that it won't do the work.
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Will, of course, Keith, all right, welcome back to policy and write to your depictions Media Radio. I'm your host, Michael Kloggs. Let's have a simple discussion about some of the wars that are happening in our world today, because
these are awards over sovereignty. Well, Russia versus Ukraine. Ukraine UH claims that claims to the territories of Dundas and and of course Crimea, which okay, let's look at this a little bit closer, because Vladimir Putin went back as far as the Romanovs with Crimea and Dundas, and if you look at the Romanovs, well, they managed to take control over these two areas by way of force, in which case they defeated them in battle, simply, but they
defeated him in battle and then took their sovereignty away and made them part of Russia, which the Romanovs didn't really manage to do with Ukraine. They did not defeat them in battle and then become make them become part of.
Russia.
But the Soviet Union did took over Ukraine. Okay, they managed to uh to defeat them. It was it wasn't so much in battle as much as it was an economic thing that they managed to gain control of Ukraine as the Soviet Union. So mister Putin only wants to go back that far. Mister Zelenski wants to go back as far as where well Crimea was handed over as a peace offering offering to Ukraine because for whatever the political reasons were at the time it happened, which Crimea
wasn't really Russia to give away. If we look at complete sovereignty.
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Crimea before the Romanovs was a sovereign state. So you go back to the seventeen hundreds, back far enough, and we find that Chrimea and both done to us were actually their own states. Familiar theme, very familiar theme of how colonialism and imperialism takes over because the Romanos, remember the Romanos were also related to the crown back in England. But we're not going to go too far with that
because there's other places where sovereignty is being affected. If we look at there is has been fighting happening between India and Pakistan, and it's at a ceasefire right now after it would be just a few days. But in comparison to some of the other conflicts that have happened, but the ongoing struggle has been years over what is
called Kashmir. And most people in North America Kashmir. That's a sweater, well not Kashmir starting with a C. Kashmir starting with a K. Should be is what should be its own sovereign country, which has been that sovereignty has been once again interrupted and by colonialism and is now being fought over between India and Pakistan. That's what the fight was about. Who gets to control Kashmir. And it's not really that big of a piece of land, but its land, and they want control over it. They want
control over the people. So that and this is the whole point of colonialism, is to be able to tax the people so that you can get what you want out of them, simply put okay, So let's move on to Palestine. In Israel, now, there are some things about Israel in any of its name which quite literally, if you go back through time, you find out that Israel, simply put means one who struggles with God. Now there are some spiritual and religious things with that that not
for this show. One who struggles with God also means having a conversation with God. And if we look at the prophets, all of them had a conversation with God, and they struggled with God because they were trying to do what God wanted with them. They didn't struggle against God. They struggled with him because he gave them a task and God was trying to help them complete that task in a worldly fashion. But the struggle was I'm a human being and here are my limitations. Again, that not
for this conversation. It's a religious conversation about the struggles between our body versus our spiritual being. But with that being said, that Palestine, while may have been the territory that David, King David from the Bible actually held, and the and then for the most part, a lot of that territory have been taken over. And the reason why
it's called Palestine is because of the Roman Empire. Thus the first level of colonialism enters, and with that the Romans named the territory Palestine, which means that as we push forward through history with with with the Roman Empire, that Jesus Christ may have been quote unquote a Palestinian because it was a jew it was to the Roman Empire, it was a Jewish state. I know there's a lot of people out there that they're screaming in their heads right now, but it's kind of there. If you look
look at the history, it is there. Okay. Eventually, what happens is is that after the crucifix crucifixion of Jesus Christ, that a lot of Jews decided to leave the area and for fear of persecution because of what happened to Jesus Christ these around the world. And they also hey gained more Jewish people in Europe. A lot of those by way of genetics or blood, however you want to
put it. A lot of the Zionists Jews that are currently in Palestine or Israel what is Israel today after World War Two, are not even genetically members of the Twelve Tribes of Israel anyway, The Twelve Tribes of Israel, meaning that they were the sons and daughters of those who struggle with God to begin with, meaning that they worked with God, they had a conversation with God. Okay. So that leads us to thinking that is the fight in Palestine and Gaza about putting the Jewish people who
genetically belong there back in place? Or is it about taking control over another group of people, the Palestinians, because we wanted to colonize the area and of course rapid of whatever resources it has, because that's what colonialism does. And I haven't even begun to talk about North America with the lack of sovereignty that is going on right now.
We're only going to talk about this, okay. So here's the thing that there is a struggle for sovereignty, and that then that there are groups of people who are struggling with regaining their sovereignty and they should have it that that sovereignty should lead back to the land of their ancestors. Yes, that sovereignty should also mean that we should all be able to have a dialogue together, work together,
build commerce together. That's what we will. We should all be able to join together in a conversation so that we can share the riches that this planet has, and that's the whole purpose of sovereignty, is that we get to share equally and offer at an equal table what our land has to offer. And there's a threat to that, and there has been a threat for that for hundreds of years now. Okay, so on to more current conversations.
We're gonna hear from Mark Carney as he is well, more or less, he's been sworn in as Prime Minister, his cabinet has been sworn in, and hey, they're ready to begin the letter towards the Crown so that they can open up Parliament.
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That means that Canada will move forward with business, with the business of hand. And the Canada should also make ensure that when they are writing this letter to the Crown that it includes a plan of how they want to end the conflicts that are happening around the world and enter in conversations that promote peace, that promote cultural sovereignty and that allows people to be who they're supposed to be. That will include human rights to be what
and who you want to be. All right, and we're gonna hear some counter arguments from Pierre Paulviev and we're going to hear some other news from the United Nations as they also are talking about sovereignty and ending conflicts around the world, so that on this what they are also talking about is how because of lack of sovereignty, because of conflict, because of people violating human rights in general, there are people now starving in areas of the Sudan,
in Palestine darfour where hey, the cost of staples is well, no one can happen. Not only are we talking about famine, but we're also talking about the cost of things just being so ridiculous, and that getting aid into certain areas in order to help people just live just to keep breathing and not starved to death is astronomical and ridiculous.
So why don't we listen to as we start with mister Pobev and that and move forward from their ending with the United Nations, and we're going to hear as I should say, at the beginning of this, we actually heard from a stakeout with the representative from the United Kingdom as they talked about again more global issues and what the You and Security Council is proposing to do about it.
Cabinet then sadly for Canadians. Nothing is going to change, and the role of the Conservative Party will be more important than ever. Conservatives will continue to push real solutions. We'll put forward constructive ideas to reverse the housing crisis, make food affordable, and grow our paychecks. Can these sorts of things cannot be solved with more bureaucracy and liberal laws.
We need common say results, and that's why Conservatives will continue to push for less spending, less taxes, less inflation. To lock up criminals, remove bureaucracy, speed up home building and resource production. We need to put forward real solutions on crime, for example, to tough enough penalties for repeat
violent offenders and the revolving door of broken bail. We will also demand the government actually impose a real cap on immigration so that we can stop the uncontrolled population growth that has over had put too much pressure on
our housing, job, and healthcare systems. Finally, and most importantly, the only way we get out of this deep economic trouble the liberals have got us into is by unleashing economic growth, and that means repealing anti development laws C sixty nine, the energy cap, the industrial carbon tax, the offshore shipping ban. All of these things need to be reversed that we can unleash the incredible power of our resources.
We need a pro growth, free enterprise agenda to take us from the worst in the G seven to the best in the G seven. We should be the richest country in the world with our resources and our brilliant people, and Conservatives will continue to propose real solutions to make that happen. It's our constitutional duty to hold the government to account, and.
We will do that.
We'll give a voice to all the voiceless, those who have been cast aside, ignored, kick to the curb, the decent, honorable people whose lives have been turned upside down in the last decade, that feel like they've had until recently that they've had no voice. They've asked me to continue to fight for them, and Conservatives are going to be their voice on the floor of the House of Commons. We're proud that we brought together the biggest co coalition of conservatives in history.
They will all work.
We want to make sure that every single person who have vested their hopes in us sees us fighting for them every day, even though the final result did not go how we want them. We want to see dramatic changes, not soft assurances, and we also have an offer to make the Liberals. My message to mister Carney steal my ideas. We've got great ideas and we've been leading the charge on the debate over carbon taxes, inflation, housing prices, crime, drugs,
resource development. And I note the Liberals even lifted a few of those ideas and put them in their platform to get reelective. We want to make sure that they were sincere about that, and we're going to continue to put forward solid ideas to make people's lives better every day, because our purpose is to bring home the promise of Canada that everyone who works hard gets a great life, that anyone from anywhere can do anything where you get a nice, affordable home on a safe street. Every day
and every day every way. We will fight for our people and our country to put people back in charge of their lives with bigger paychecks, abundant affordable energy, home ownership, low taxes, safe streets, and a strong military in the country that we know and love Canada.
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It is with great honor and greater humility that I have accepted the Governor General's request to form a new government, and I share this responsibility with the members of Canada's new federal cabinet.
I'm going to applaud them.
I'm going to applaud Canadians elected this new government with a strong mandate to define a new economic and security relationship with the United States and to build a stronger economy for all Canadians. Canadians also sent a clear message that their cost of living must come down and that our.
Communities must be safe.
The swearing in of this cabinet is amongst the fastest following an election, and the beginning of the new parliament will be one of the most rapid following election in Canadian history. We are starting as we aim to go on. Our government will deliver its mandate for change with urgency and determination. We're going to deliver that mandate with a new team, purpose built for this hinge moment in Canada's history. This cabinet is smaller and more focused than those of
previous governments. It will operate with a commitment to true cabinet government, with everyone expected and empowered to show leadership, to bring new ideas, to have a clear focus, and to take decisive actions to accomplish their work. In return to more traditional cabinet government, our cabinet will be supported by ten Secretaries of State who will lead on key
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June in Saskatoon. My government will also take immediate action with immediately out of thirteen. In everything, we will be guided by our conviction that our economy is only strong when it serves everyone. That means bringing down costs for all Canadians, means making life more affordable and helping everyone to get ahead to those ends. My last government's first
act was to cancel the consumer carbon tax. In this new parliament, our new government will put more money in Canadian's pockets with a middle class tax cut that will take effect by Canada Day, saving two income families up to eight hundred and twenty five dollars a year. We will also cut the GST on homes under one million dollars for first time home buyers and lower the GST on homes between one million and one and a half million,
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Good afternoon, Prime Minister rachel A l O c TV News. Your two seats shy of one. But should Canadians expect you to govern like you have a majority?
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followed the campaign and what Canadians voted for. I'll remind not you you'll know this, but those watching we receive more votes than anyone else in any election. We are in a position where we have cabinet members from all the provinces. I'm very proud of that, and and a cabinet member from a full cabinet member from the territories. So we're governing for all Canadians, all regions with a strong and clear mandate that came out of the election, and that's how we will govern.
Thank you.
And so what does tangible progress look like for you when it comes to addressing cost of living concerns in this country? And will there be a barometer such as public mandate letters for Canadians to hold you accountable to well?
I think the way Canadians will hold account by their experience at the grocery store, at when they're paying their electricity bill, when they're when they or their children are looking for a place to live. So we will be there. Experience is how they will hold it. They will form those judgments and then of course accountability comes at the ballot box. Mandate letters, cabinets, cabinet discussions, legislation, regulation, these
are just steps to accomplish those ultimate goals. And it's what the experiences of Canadians, Canadian families, that's how that's how they will judge cost of living. I will say one other thing, but there are two elements to cost of thing. One is the actual cost of things and the other is are people's salaries growing, is their take home pay increasing? Can they find jobs readily? And those last ass We have to focus on those aspects as well.
We can act most quickly, most immediately with the middle class tax cut, which is, as I said in my remarks, we will act by Canada day. Parliament has to approve it. We'll have to find two extra votes in order to get that, but we clearly campaigned on that and we'll put that forth. But more broadly, what we need to do is build this economy, create great jobs for Canadians.
At the same time costs are held under control. But it's really about jobs and growth and incomes that will help all Canadians get ahead.
The next question.
Sarah Ritchie with the Canadian Press, given what you just said about trying to find two extra votes in Parliament, what efforts are you and your team making to sort of more permanently find those two extra votes from other caucuses.
Yeah, you know, I maybe I didn't say it quite as explicitly, but I will now, which is that we have We campaigned hard, We campaigned clearly. We had more than one hundred events. We answered media questions at all our events and gave a very clear platform. So we have a strong mandate. We're going to focus on the issues that are at the core of that mandate. Of course, we'll work with parliamentarians and we'll work with the provinces to move things forward. But we've been a lot to
do a job. We intend to do it quickly, uh and forcefully. In other words, we're we have to address this crisis with the Americans, and we have to address the very real challenges in our economy. And we will we will, we will do that.
Who will be your key members of your team that help you lead that Canada US relations file.
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Well, obviously in my role I take ultimate responsibility for it, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs will play a role, the Minister of Finance, the Minister Micheur LeBlanc in his role specifically with respect specifically designated with respect to Canada US trade, as will the Minister of Defense and the
Minister of Public Safety. Because there are aspects, and I will say, without going into great detail, that it was only was a week ago, I guess when I met with a number of US met with President Trump and his team. Uh. And in the broader discussions outside of the Oval Office, in the Roosevelt room. We touched on all those issues public safety, defense, as well as all aspects of economics and trade, and so it is a
real team effort. And I remiss in that I hadn't mentioned, and I will now obviously our ambassador in Washington, who plays a very important role.
Missing next question, Good afternoon, Prime Minister Jillian Piper with Global News. Interim NDP leader Don Davies told Global News that your government was reaching out and calling NDP individuals about trying to poach them to join your party. Are you trying to poach ndpmps to join the Liberals?
Look, we, as I said a moment ago, we have a clear mandate. We'll we'll work towards that clear mandate. We're always interested in working with parliamentarians from any any of any of the opposition parties to h to support the support that mandate. Obviously that those discussions will intensify as Parliament returns in the course of the next world It's less than two weeks, so clear mandate focus on those speech in the Throne will be quite clear in terms of our priorities.
We'll work with parliament, all right, Good afternoon.
Earlier today, the Secretary General, who is you know is in Berlin, spoke at the opening ceremony of the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting. He reasserted that in trouble spots around the world, our blue helmets can mean the difference between life and death, adding that they were a clear demonstration of the power of multilateral action to maintain, to achieve and to sustain peace. Mister Guteris spoke about the challenges that we are now facing, including having the highest number
of conflicts since the foundation of this organization. On top of that, we faced dramatic financial constraints across the board. You all received his remarks during his speech in honor of the four thousand, four hundred peacekeepers who have died in the line of duty since the start of UN Peacekeeping, Mister Guteris asked the attendees at the meeting to join
him in a moment of silence. Also in Berlin, the Secretary General met separately with Germany's foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Johann Vuadefool, as well as the Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius. Among other topics, they discussed the importance of Germany's role in peacekeeping and is just a flag and as a sign of the importance of this meeting, we have more than one hundred and thirty delegations in Berlin
at this peacekeeping conference. On the sidelines of the ministerial meeting, the Secretary General also had bilateral meetings with ministers and officials from other countries, including Italy, Finland and China. He is ending the day with a visit to an exhibit on UN Peacekeeper Being in Action, which is being held at the Germany's Ministry of Defense in Berlin. The event features displays on mine action, women in Peacekeeping, renewable energy
and United Nations Police. And tomorrow he will meet with Heidrich Kmertz, the Federal Chancellor of Germany, and he will also have a couple of press engagements. Will keep you updated on all of that. Turning to the situation in the Occupied Palestine territory, notably in Gaza, our colleagues at the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs remind us that no aid or commercial supplies have entered Gaza now for more than seventy days. The ongoing full scale blockade
of the strip is taking disastrous toll on the population. Meanwhile, hospitals continue to come under attack. Today in Khan Yunis, Israeli forces hit the surgical department of NASA Medical Complex and several casualties were reported. The complex is one of only eight public hospitals that are still partially operating across Gaza.
Following the attack, the Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Gaza, Susanna to Collets, together with an OCHA team, visited the hospital where she spoke with staff and a team of international doctors that are there. She said she was appalled by yet another attack on this hospital, which is the fourth
since the beginning of this conflict. Mister Collets stressed that these attacks are unacceptable and must stop, adding that health care facilities and those serving them must always be protected or Humanitarian partners on the ground report that only five hospitals across the Gaza Strip are still providing maternity care. Midwives lack medical supplies, they lack equipment, but with our partners reporting that now some seventeen thousand pregnant and breastfeeding
mothers of suffering from malnutrition and need urgent support. OUTRA reports that Israeli authorities continued to deny and impede attempts by humanitarians to carry out critical missions in Gaza.
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Out of eleven requests by the United Nations for coordinating humanitarian movements, five were denied outright, including one planned mission to retrieve fuel from Rafa to supply hospitals, ambulances, and water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. The other six missions, which including the rotation of staff, were facilitated with both supplies and
time running out. OCHA says that principal humanitarian assistance and other essential supplies must be allowed into Gaza to save lives and humanitarians work to reach people across the strip must be facilitated. Israeli, as the occupying power, must abide by international humanitarian law and facilitate aid for people in need, ever they are.
And at three pm this.
Afternoon, Tom Fletcher, our Emergency Relief Coordinator, will brief the Security Council on the situation in Gaza. We will share those remarks with you ahead of time. Turning to Sudan, which is another dire humanitarian situation, our humanitarian colleagues warned that humanitarian needs continue to rise amid continued conflict and
displacement across multiple regions of Sudan. The International Organization for Migration says that more than thirty six thousand people were displaced from Al Kiwi and Ad Nuhoud in West Cortifon due to heightened insecurity. Many had already been internally displaced and are now having to flee for a second time, seeking shelter in locations across West and North Cortafan.
In North Darfur.
IOM also reports that more than two thousand people were newly displaced from Abushukan and parts of El Fasher this week, also due to the ongoing insecurity situation. Most remained within El Fasher locality while others fled to Tauila. Whereas we told you yesterday, we and our partners have been scaling up support for the newly arrived people. These movements followed the displacement of nearly four hundred thousand people from sam
Zam camp last month. Our humanitarian colleagues warned that food insecurity and situation in Sudan remains deeply concerning. Prices of key staples foods are alarmingly high, while sorghum prices decline slightly in April, millet prices rose. Both remained more than four times the price prior to the conflict which started this phase of the conflict starting March twenty twenty three. That's what the UN Food and Agricultural Organization is telling us.
Sorghum and millet are staples for most of the population in central and eastern parts of Sudan.
And a reminder that more.
Than half of the population in Sudan, that's twenty four point six million human beings are facing acute hunger, with approximately six hundred and thirty eight thousand individuals experiencing actual famine.
And that's what the latest update from the IPC is telling us, and that was released, as you know, late last year and covers a period through this may Otra stresses that without urgent assistance and unfettered access to reach people in need wherever they are, the situation would worsen, could worsen during the upcoming lean season, which is from
June to September. We once again call in all parties to immediately seee hostilities and uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians, to protect civilian infrastructure, and to ensure the safe, the sustained and unhindered humanitarian access to reach those people who need help.
We also urged the.
International community to step up support for the Sudan humanitarian response to prevent further loss of life and worsening catastrophe in South Sudan. Our peacekeeping colleagues tell us that air strikes and ground attacks continuing john Lay in Uppernule States. This includes reports of clashes yesterday in Newfangak, jong Lay and Jongley which have allegedly led to civilian deaths as
well as injuries. In response to escalating violence, the Peacekeeping Mission there UNMISS has strengthened its protection efforts within its capacities. This includes intensifying patrols and deploying peacekeepers to temporary bases in conflict hotspots.
As the results on.
Sunday, peacekeepers stationed temporarily in Mapa and Lake States were able to deploy swiftly when cattle raid in the area led to multiple casualties. They prevented further conflict and provide
emergency medical care to those wounded. On the broader political and security front, the Mission is engaging with national and local authorities to reduce tension and reiterate that the parties must seize hostilities resume dialogue to address the grievances and make progress on the full implementation of revitalized peace Agreement and a Tchwana flagg that our colleagues at the UN Support Mission in Libya tell us their alarm by the
unfolding security situation in the capital Tripoli, with intense fighting with heavy weaponry intensely populated civilian areas. The mission calls on all parties to immediately cease fighting and restore calm, and it reminds all parties of their obligations to protect civilians at all times. Attacks on civilians and attack on civilian objects may amount to war crimes.
Unsmill fully supports.
The effect of the efforts of elders and community leaders to try to de escalate the current tensions. And I want to flag a report by UN Women which was recently released today. In March, the agency conducted a global survey to understand how funding reductions are impacting local women led groups in crisis settings. The survey reached over four hundred organizations in forty four countries and the results, as
you can expect, are alarming. The overwhelming majority ninety percent of them said their operations were financially impacted and nearly half of them expect to shut down within six months. Most have already reduced staff and suspended key services. Our colleagues say that women and girls cannot afford to lose lifelines that women's organization are providing. They're calling for more support and more resources. Lastly, we have a new member state.
Sorry, wow, Sorry that woke you up.
We have new members state that has actually paid its dues, and it is home to a lake which is the third lowest point in terms of in terms of elevation in the world, after the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee.
No, no, slow down, You're all wrong.
The name of this lake is Lake Assal and is one hundred and fifty five meters below sea level. Do we know where Lake Assal is? Sorry, it's close U Djibouti Jibouti, Chris.
I mean you know, yeah, I know.
The man's got a vision. Yeah.
All right, all right, I'm done your turn.
Eat, Thank you, Steph.
Does the Secretary General have any comment on the announcement that the US President Donald Trump will meet serious leader.
No, I mean I think it's listen, it's not for us to comment. I think we have been supportive of the efforts of the interim authorities to rebuild their country in line with the ideals found in Resolution twenty two fifty four, and for Syria to resume its place amongst nations.
And on a different subject, does the Secretary General agree with the head of Unlocked, Philipps Lazarini that Israel denying food to Gaza is quote, a weapon of war.
I think we've been very clear, and he's been very clear in what we have seen as violations of international humanitarian law in terms of what's going on in Gaza.
Now you all know my ring for the boss.
Sorry he called from Berlin.
Yeah, exactly, really Okay.
Since since we talked talked for days about the financial restraint of the United Nations, do you happen to have the figure how much US owns the UN so far?
I don't have that figure on the top of my head, but we can see.
If we can get that.
Okay. Another topic today, is there any combinant proves West Bank land registration process to what they call strengthen Jewish settlement. Any reaction from the Secret General on this?
I mean, we think it's a it's a dangerous movement in terms of legitimizing the occupation.
We believe that.
The West Bank is part of the occupied Palestinian territory, and I think anything that would move toward wwards annexation would be to put it mildly counter to international law and not encounter to our efforts in the peace process.
From zero to ten, what would be the score for you to what would be the score of the possibility to implement Tuesday solutions so far?
I'm not going to play the numbers game, but I think it's very clear, and the Secretary journal has been very clear that we're moving in the right in the wrong direction and we need to reverse course.
Gabriel then Abdamid.
Thank you.
Stef You mentioned Israel's attack on Naser Hospital, but I just wanted to get a little more detail of the Secretary's reaction to. One of the people that was killed in the hospital was a journalist that was in the hospital recovering after he was targeted the month before while in a tent that was home to journalists. He was killed. Now the number of journalists killed in Gaza over two hundred.
The Secretary General's reaction to despite his continued pleas for Israel to stop killing journalists, Israel continues to do it.
What we have seen in Gaza is the continuing suffering of the Palestinian people that have been bombed in places where they should be safe, whether it is hospitals, whether it is our or informal settlement camps where they've been told to go. And just another reason why we need to return to a ceasefire, to see humanitarian aid, go back in, to see civilians in Gaza be safer, and to see hostages released. Abdelhamid, then, Michelle, thank you.
Step In the West Bank, the village of Sinjil, not far from Ramallah, has been walled off completely with one entrance only. And this is becoming a phenomena by Israel off some villages leaving one in which is actually it is humans of the whole time.
Are you following, I'm not, I'm not familiar with this particular h this particular case, but I think we've been very clear at expressing our grave concern, to put it mildly, at the continued deterioration of everyday life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Another question on Gaza, probably we heard that hundreds of times, calling on Israel not to attack, medical centers, medical facilities, schools, universities. You keep repeating that again and again and again, and this supposedly member of state is not listening, is not really hitting record. What else you and can do?
You know?
I think I I I answered this question in different ways yesterday or did it was posed to me in a different way yesterday?
Members?
Every Member state has a responsibility to uphold international law, which they've all signed on to, but there are also other voices that need to speak up in the international community, and we all need to make sure we're all speaking up based on the same principles that the Secretary Journal has been very clear about. Michelle.
Thanks Sef. Follow up to Eightie's question on Syria. President Trump has just announced that he's going to lift all US sanctions on Syria. This is something the UN has been pushing for. Can you give us your response and just remind us why the UN was pushing for these sanctions.
Well, I think it was important for us to see relief on sanctions on Syria to help the reconstruction of Syria, to help the Syrian people recover from more than a decade of conflict, a decade of under investment and We continue to support the reconstruction, whether it's physical or psychological, of Syria, for it to be a country where all Syrians of all faiths, of all ethnicities and minorities feel safe and represented.
Dennis, just a quick follow up, so what's your particular reaction on Trump's promise to remove sections on Syria. Well, it is a welcome move.
In addition to everything that I told Michelle, which I don't need to repeat.
Uh, thanks so much, step Russia grank talks on Thursday in Eastan will still no updates whether the United Nations will be presented.
There no uh, nothing to share with you at this time. Yes, please, thanks Steph.
This is Munira from CNN. Parents and doctors in Gaza told CNN that starving mothers have been unable to produce enough milk to feed their babies, and parents have been scrambling to keep their children alive. Today, you mentioned only
five hospitals across the Strip are offering maternity services. Given this, can you speak to whether there is equitable access to health care for expecting new mothers in Gaza and how has the ongoing blockade and severe lack of medical services affected maternal and newborn health well, I.
Mean no, there's not been equitable access how it's affected. I mean one can only mean one doesn't have to imagine because one knows that when hospitals are bombed, when critical care services in hospitals are are attacked and not one drop of humanitarian aid or commercial goods have been allowed into an area for seventy days, when the food levels are what we explained yesterday catastrophic level, the impact on mothers and mothers who are trying to feed their
children is devastating to say the least. Yes, sir, please.
Slabdoro from an adult agency. My question sort of has been asked, but let me follow up regarding May fifteenth direct peace talk in is Stumbul. Turkia Yun had a successful initiation back in July twenty twenty two regarding Lexia Grain initiative. What's the difference at the time this time, this upcoming meeting. Should we expect any statement from you or any involvement any it will be you know, I.
Think we always appreciate the role that Turkya has played in trying to bring an end to this conflict. Our position has remained the same that we want to see an end to the conflict in line with the revenue and resolutions, in line with international law, and we remain supportive of any and all efforts to that end. I think once we have a bit more clarity on what will happen in Istanbul, I will have more to say. Okay, yes, Abdelhamid.
Yesterday Prime Minister of India Moodi, gave a very strong rhetoric speech that indicate that the ceasefire is very fragile and there is a statement from Pakistan to reject this, this kind of tone by Indian Prime minister. Are you following the situation? How do you estimate how how do you think that the cease fire is holding?
And I mean the cease fire is holding. I think we have seen uh, we're in a better place than we were before. We hope that the cease fire will continue to u to hold, and we hope that the parties will use this to deal with a lot of the outstanding issues between them.
Gabriel, thank you, Steph. I just want to follow up on US lifting sanctions on Syria. I know you answered the question already, but with the US, with the UN ramping up in the last several months, humanitarian aid to Syria, Political aid Syria. How will the lifting of these sanctions affect the work of the United Nations Syria?
The lifting of sanctions, it's uh will make it. It is more of a focus on economic development, right on private businesses, on investment. Obviously it makes us work it a little easier. But these kind of unilateral sanctions, the lifting of these kinds of unilisle sanctions is a positive development in inviting kind of a broader investment in Syria.
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