Name: LIVE: UN secretary-general spokesperson holds briefing amid Israel-Iran conflict
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It is across the board in the Secretariat and including in the Secretary General's own office.

I think his own office is not exempt from it.

I spoke to Guy Ryder yesterday and we hope to have him and other senior colleagues come and brief you in person.

I think, you know, there is no, it is the need to reduce is across the board and no office is exempt.

Another 22 Palestinians were killed while waiting for food.

And again, I didn't hear that number coming in the briefing.

Palestinians are not only just scores or number of Palestinians were killed.

I mean, in the note that I just read, we talked about the fact that people continue to be wounded and continue to be killed while doing what is the most basic human need, trying to get food, trying to get the most basic supplies.

No human being should be killed trying to feed themselves or trying to feed their family.

Ambassador in Israel, Mike Huckabee, he suggested to President Trump to bomb Iran with a nuclear bomb.

I haven't seen those particular comments, but I have seen a lot of unhelpful rhetoric around this conflict, including around use of nuclear weapons.

I think the Secretary General has spoken out a lot in the last year about the issue of dangerous rhetoric around nuclear weapons.

As we were very clear yesterday, we do not want to see a further internationalization of this conflict.

We want the military action to stop, and we want to return to diplomacy.

But does the Secretary General see there is a rise of fascism in the world of today?

I think the Secretary General has spoken about the rise of extremism and xenophobia for quite some time.

In fact, since the beginning of his tenure.

Stefano, then Mr. Bais, and then we'll go that way.

What does the Secretary General expect from Berlin for their conference tomorrow on Libya?

I think anything that would advance the cohesiveness of the Libyan political leadership and help move the political process forward would be welcome.

We've had lots of reports of people who are thinking of leaving Tehran.

Is the UN monitoring population flows in and out of Iran?

And what are you preparing, particularly of the neighboring countries?

The UN has a large footprint in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

I mean, there are contingency plans being updated all the time.

We're obviously concerned beyond the military action we're seeing on the regional impact that this conflict would have, can have, and including on mass movements of people into countries that some of them are better equipped than others in terms of receiving mass, a large number of people.

I mean, for example, Afghans returning to Afghanistan?

We were waiting for you with your toolkit.

We've been waiting for you to start repairing them, James.

Honestly, I mean, they're old escalators.

You should have all the spare parts ready.

I will not entertain a follow-up on an escalator question.

Volodymyr, please take me someplace else.

According to a report by Japan's NHK, North Korea, a military ally of Russia, may deploy up to 20,000 workers to a drone factory in Yelabuga, Russia, to help boost Russian drone production.

The goal appears to be to train North Koreans in manufacturing and operating drones.

We don't have any independent verification of that report.

But I think whether it's the conflict you're speaking about or any other, further internationalizing any conflict, I think, takes us away from the end of that conflict.

Tomorrow's meeting on Iran at the Security Council, who will brief the Council?

I expect the Secretary General to give opening remarks.

And Rosemary DiCarlo will likely also brief.

I'm not sure if I missed something along the months on South Sudan.

When you mentioned it with cholera and so forth, has the United States put more migrants there?

I don't think one is linked to the other.

And also, it's Juneteenth here, which stands for freedom, the symbol for freedom, even if not always the reality.

So my question is, does the Secretary General look at the events going on in the Middle East and Israel's bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and think that this could, do actions like this encourage countries, in his view, to acquire their own nuclear deterrent?

What we want to see is a reinforcement of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, not a weakening of it.

But what we want to see in any conflict is a full respect for international law, the full respect from the Charter.

And we're seeing that being gnawed at by so many countries around the world.

Did UN itself have any contingency plans in both Israel and Iran to evacuate your people?

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