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Issue Date: 26/04/19

 Spokesperson's Daily Briefing                                                         
Latest from the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
Secretary-General's message to the Eighth Moscow Conference on International Security
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- Security Council: UN calls for ‘spirit and letter’ of Ukraine agreements to be upheld
- Change attitudes for future generations of women in tech, UN urges
- ‘You can and should do more’ to include people with disabilities'
Security Council: UN calls for ‘spirit and letter’ of Ukraine agreements to be upheld, as Russia issues simplified citizenship decree
The UN’s political affairs chief has urged all parties to the peace plan protocol for eastern Ukraine known as the Minsk Agreements, to avoid “any unilateral steps” that could undermine efforts to demilitarize the eastern conflict zone.

 
Change attitudes for future generations of women in tech, UN urges 
When women and girls are empowered with technology, the whole world benefits. That’s one key message from the International Day for girls in the field of information and communications technology, or ICT, marked on Thursday. 
 
‘You can and should do more’ to include people with disabilities, wheelchair-bound Syrian advocate tells Security Council in searing speech
The polite but passionate plea came from 20-year-old wheelchair-bound Syrian refugee, Nujeen Mustafa, who briefed members in a soft but commanding voice, on the acute vulnerabilities of people with disabilities in conflict, describing how once war began in her home city of Aleppo, she lived with the intense fear that she would be responsible for her own family dying in an airstrike.

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