Dominican Republic

The Secretary-General travelled to Haiti via the Dominican Republic and he arrived in Santo Domingo on the evening of Monday, 15 June.

A UN-European Union report released today estimates recovery and reconstruction in Gaza will cost $71.4 billion over the next 10 years. Over 371,000 housing units have been destroyed or damaged; over half of Gaza’s hospitals are non-functional; all schools are destroyed or damaged, and the economy has contracted 84 per cent.

In Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that hostilities across the Strip continue to exact a devastating toll on civilians, causing further death, further displacement and further destruction of critical infrastructure.

The new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations, Wellington Bencosme, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

In Syria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports in the north-east of the country the UN carried out a cross-line inter-agency assessment mission to Al-Kisrah district in Deir-ez-Zor, and that is the first such mission since 2018.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Julia Sanchez of Peru as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Dominican Republic, with the host Government’s approval. Her start date was 1 September.

As fighting in Myanmar between ethnic armed organizations and the Myanmar Armed Forces expands, and humanitarian access is blocked, UN partners on the ground are still providing life-saving assistance wherever possible. The Humanitarian Response Plan for Myanmar, only 28 per cent funded, needs an urgent injection of funding.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that shelling yesterday damaged a power line near a main lift pumping station of the South Donbas Waterway in eastern Ukraine.  It interrupted safe water supply for 1.1 million people in 50 nearby settlements on both sides of the “contact line”.

The new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations, José A. Blanco Conde, paid a courtesy call on UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations, José A. Blanco Conde, presented his credentials to the Secretariat today.