Thank you, Mr President, and thank you to both of our briefers this morning. I would like to start by expressing the United Kingdom’s support for the peoples and the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan in their efforts to respond to COVID-19. We welcome the quick responses of the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan to COVID-19 and their efforts to mitigate its effects. So far, the UK has contributed approximately $6 million to the UN’s COVID-19 preparedness and response efforts in Sudan and over $4 million to the effort in South Sudan. But despite these efforts, Mr President, we remain very concerned by the fragile security situation in Abyei.

Source: Ethiopian News April 28, 2020 15:45 UTC