Welcome to the press briefing of the UN in Geneva.
Today is Friday, 2nd of May.
We have a short but important briefing and I would like to start by going straight to Gaza.
We have with us our onions and his colleague Olga Cherevko, who is the spokesperson of OCHA.
She's coming in from Gaza City to tell us about the situation in Gaza after two months of aid.
I'll start with Yens and then go to Olga.
Yeah, thank you very much, Alessandro.
Just to remind you about the statement that we issued yesterday for the Emergency Relief Coordinator on the two months mark to the day of the Israeli Authority's decision to block all aid into Gaza and in effect halt our efforts to save survivors of their military offensive, saying that it was to pressurise Hamas.
He also said that yes, the hostages must be released now, they should never have been taken from their families in their first place.
But international law is unequivocal.
As the occupying power, Israel must allow humanitarian to pour in aid and the civilian lives that it saves should never be a bargaining chip.
So with that, I will hand the floor to my good colleague Olga, who is in Gaza City.
We have shared with you in advance her remarks as prepared, but please check against what is going, what she's going to tell you now.
So we'll get over to you.
Good morning and thank you.
And thank you, Alessandra, and good morning, colleagues.
Thank you for this timely opportunity.
There's probably little that hasn't already been said about the grim reality that is Gaza today.
The decision makers have watched in silence the endless scenes of bloodied children, of severed limbs, of grieving parents move swiftly across their screens, month after month after month.
I have spent nearly five years now working in Gaza, including about 10 months during the current war.
Back in 2014, after another ****** escalation which lasted 51 days, the longest at that point, a doctor in Rafa told me that people here had stopped daring to dream.
10 years later, people tell me they have stopped daring to live.
After nearly 18 months of bloodshed, Gaza lies in ruins.
Rubble fills the streets and the sound of children play is punctuated by the roar of explosions.
Many nights, blood curdling screams of the injured Pierce the skies following the deafening sound of yet another explosion.
Seconds later, the wailing sirens of ambulances as they rush to save the injured and collect the dead.
Exactly 2 months ago, as Jans mentioned, all entry points were sealed by the Israeli authorities for the entry of cargo, triggering the countdown to the worst case scenario.
Supplies becoming depleted while the war rages on.
Food stocks have now mainly run out.
Water access has become impossible.
In fact, as I speak to you just below, downstairs from this building, people are fighting for water.
There's a water truck that has just arrived and people are killing each other over water.
Hospitals report running out of blood units as mass casualties continue to arrive.
Gaza is inching closer to running on empty as fuel also is being rationed to maintain only the most critical operations running.
A friend of mine from from Gaza City recalled recently a harrowing memory.
He said to me I saw people burning a few days ago from the explosions and there was no water to save them.
Community kitchens have begun to shut down, with those still running only able to offer very modest meals as more people are going hungry.
Another friend of mine who runs several of these community kitchens has told me this blockade is deadly.
People ask me for food every day and I cannot feed.
Feed them all along with supplies, cooking fuel and cooking energy is depleting rapidly.
Children across Gaza who have been deprived of their childhood for many months are seen rummaging through the massive piles of trash in search of anything to burn for cooking.
Plastic, fabric, wood, anything to help them survive.
In another attempt to survive, stations have been set up across Gaza that burn plastic and other toxic waste to produce fuel as clouds of black smoke rise into Gaza skies, emanating dangerous fumes, endangering people's lives and devastating the environment.
In just 1 1/2 months, over 420,000 people have been once again forced to flee, many of them with only the clothes on their backs shot at along the way, arriving in overcrowded shelters as tents and other facilities where people seek safety are being bombed.
These and other horrors continues continue to take place as the world watches.
Yet this gruesome deterioration can be easily reversed if we're given the tools we need to reverse this tide.
We're ready to resume delivery at scale as soon as the crossings reopen.
We stand by our pledge to remain principled and continue relieving people's suffering, wherever they may be.
The international community today has a choice to keep scrolling through the grisly images of Gaza being suffocated and starved, or muster the courage and the moral fibre it takes to make the decisions that would break this merciless blockade.
The people in Gaza have no such choice.
Their fate hangs in the balance of our collective responsibility to act.
I worry that the constant stream of people being killed and injured as their dignity is stripped away and every artery and every lifeline of aid remains cut off, has made those who still paying, who are still paying attention, numb to this type of suffering.
It has become yet another surreal reality that is quantified in the numbers of people killed and injured.
I worry that five, 1020 years from now, we will look at our children and grandchildren in shame and we will not be able to explain to them why we could not stop this horror.
The same way the parents here who have had to bury their children, and the children who have had to collect the remains of their parents piece by piece, who bear witness to this today.
They ask us today why they have been abandoned.
How much more blood must be spilled before enough becomes enough?
Thank you very much, Olga.
I'll go now to questions and I see Nina Larson, AFP has a question to you.
Yeah, thank you very much for this very strong statement and briefing.
I was wondering if you could say a little bit more about the situation, the food situation.
You say food stocks are, are mostly running out.
How are how are you seeing that, if you could explain?
And how much longer do you think there is actually any food to be delivered?
And you mentioned water, you said people are killing each other over water.
If you could give some examples of that, if you could say what you've seen there?
And finally, I have a question.
Today is World Press Freedom Day and the and apparently it's at the record, record low.
How do you see that sort of playing into this, this scenario that you see playing out in Gaza where you're saying that this is just continuing and people are becoming numb.
If you if you can make a connection to to the state of media, I don't know if you if you have any thoughts on that.
In terms of food, I'm going to be very clear, the last remaining stocks that the food security partners have had, they have been given out.
So we have had to go from slicing food restrooms in half in the beginning when the crossings first closed, to then having run out of the food rations to then of course all the 25 World Food Programme supported bakeries had been forced to shut down because the flower stock had run out.
And then all the the efforts went into providing hot meals because that was the only stock we had left.
At this point that stock has been distributed fully and the the kitchens are operating with whatever they have left.
So they have had our partners have told us that they have had to to cut and reduce the the portions of the meals that were already not sufficient.
One, they were not sufficient for everyone.
They were look for being provided for less than half of the population, 2.
The size of them was not sufficient to survive on one day.
I am seeing children and I'm seeing elderly people rummaging through these piles of trash, not only in search of things to burn but also things to eat daily.
We are hearing reports from malnutrition colleagues that are saying even yesterday I was in a paediatric hospital here in Gaza City and they're all saying that malnutrition rates are going up and we're seeing that in numbers.
In terms of water, as I mentioned, this literally happened just now as I was speaking and I had to actually look out the window where people were were throwing rocks and and shots were fired as a truck, water truck was pulling away because the water has run out.
We have a lot of other our facilities, more than half of our facilities are inaccessible because of the displacement orders.
There is also the issue of no spare parts coming in even during the ceasefire, not not enough for us to repair, make the necessary repairs to the networks.
And we have done what we could to repair these networks, but the damage is absolutely massive.
So we obviously assistance goes beyond food and these supplies are running out at every level.
So that means shelter, that means medicine and and other very life critical items.
In terms of the Press, of course we all know the situation that there is no international journalists allowed to be present here.
But I have to tell you that I don't think that there is not enough information coming out of here.
There are national colleagues, Gazan colleagues, who are working around the clock, the journalists who are providing this material to the international media.
There are obviously international organisations, including OCHA WHO is doing a lot to ensure that the focus is remains on Gaza.
But I think the choice now is exactly what I said, whether we keep scrolling or or those with decision making power or actually decide to to act.
So just on the on the food issue, are you seeing people actually starving to death?
Do you think they they are because of the lack of food And on the water, is there are there is there evidence that people have actually been killing each other over water or, or are they just, you know, fighting over water?
Just so that I know if there have been actually incidents of, of deadly violence over this.
So far, I have seen malnourished children and I have seen and I have spoken to people who have not eaten in days and who are having to share the very meagre supplies that they have with sometimes their entire camp or area where they they live.
We are, we have received reports of, of children and other very vulnerable people who have died from malnutrition and obviously from the, from the lack of food in terms of water.
Again, I, I witnessed this scene just now, I don't know if anyone was killed, but it was a very violent fight and there are multiple reports of family violence, intercommunal violence that have been again, we're we're seeing more and more of them.
I don't know if you can hear that outside, but but people have been, have been killed in such, in such instances.
Thank you very much, Olga.
Let me see if there are other question in the room or definitely online.
I'll start with Yuriya Prelev Rianovosti.
Thank you for the briefing.
The first one is regarding the looting.
We are reading that there is an increasing of looting of aid and stocks that are in Gaza.
As an aid worker, how will you describe the situation on the ground regarding to the security situation?
Are you still able to work in relative safety, not also because of the Israelians bombings and strikes, but also because of the appearance of violent gangs on the ground?
And my last question is regarding the the, the closing of the the cross for the trucks of with aid.
Are you speaking with Israel regarding that?
And what are they answering when you are saying that guys, you have to reopen it now because there is nothing left in Gaza?
Why are they saying that they can't reopen it?
I'll start with the looting and the attacks on on the convoys.
We have previously said many times that Gaza is never there's no safe place in Gaza during this war.
For us as humanitarians, as aid workers, it is maybe the most dangerous place on earth to be a humanitarian.
And as you know, we've lost many, many colleagues over the past year and continue to lose them into this year.
Indeed, the looting incidents, the attacks on the convoys are taking place much more frequently now that there is a severe breakdown of law and order.
And we had a couple of incidents just two days ago, another one yesterday, at least one.
And of course, there are probably many that also don't get reported by, by small kind of community initiatives that are being attacked.
So this, this is a very real danger to, to people trying to save lives, to people trying to help others.
We're obviously as, as the UN and as, as other humanitarian organisations, we're, we're very privileged to be here.
And we are in many ways a lot more protected than the other people.
But with that said, we're still, we've still lost a record number of people in these months of the war in terms of the crossing closure.
Of course, we are in constant contact with Israeli authorities.
And, and you have seen, I mean, I think there's been enough communication and appeals and enough information coming from from both sides in terms of why we need the crossings to reopen.
And we have said that we have mechanisms that mitigate A diversion, that we have mechanisms to ensure that the aid reaches the people it's intended to reach.
And that is how we intend to continue our work.
And for that, we need the crossings to reopen.
Yes, thank you very much for doing this.
Given the funding cuts by the the major donors to the UN and the UN Secretary General's decision in March to reduce the footprint in Gaza, how are these affecting the operation on the ground?
And secondly, you're speaking, speaking from the Gaza City.
So how long have you been there?
And then also how are you, you yourself coping with the situation there?
If you could share your personal feeling there?
On the footprint reduction, I just want to make clear that one these this was a very difficult decision that had to be made in which some of our international staff have been temporarily removed and relocated outside of Gaza.
This does not mean that our operations have stopped.
We have continued to stay here and deliver the way that we have since the beginning of this war.
And of course a lot of our work, and particularly an actor like UNNA for example, it relies on the national colleagues who have never stopped working.
And who have always been here providing relief to the people in need.
And in terms of what it's like to be here.
I mean, I've, I'm in Gaza City at the moment.
I arrived yesterday, but I'm usually I roam around between southern and, and northern Gaza.
Today I'm in Gaza City for a few days.
As I mentioned, I've I've been here for several years and I saw Gaza the way it was before this conflict and, and the way it looks now and it's completely unrecognisable.
The way people speak about their life as it was before this war is that it is the only thing that they and, and I, I'll say this, that life wasn't easy even back then.
It was very difficult back then, but it was nowhere in comparison to what it is now.
And I hear a lot from people that it is the only thing that they can dream to return to instead of moving forward.
And instead of looking to the to the future, the only thing they can look to is looking backwards and returning to the way life was before this war began.
And of course, I mean, I think you would wouldn't be human not to be affected by by all of this.
But we are here to do a job and we are humanitarians to that choose to be here to save as many lives as possible.
Thank you very much, Olga.
MFR, Reuters, thank you very much for briefing us, Olga.
My question is about the Freedom Flotilla coalition that was on fire this morning.
I'm wondering if you could say anything about how much aid it was carrying and whether it would have made much of a difference to the current blockade or any other information that you or Yen's might have on what happened this morning.
I don't have the numbers on on this.
What I can say is that the most effective way to deliver assistance is through land and that is why we have emphasised this modality of delivery of of, of assistance.
I will hand it over to Jens if he has any more information on this.
We are receiving these reports and we will see if there's anything we have to say a bit later in the day.
Thank you very much, Olga And Yen, I don't see other questions for you.
So thank you very much, Olga.
Please stay safe and continue updating us on this terrible situation from Gaza City.
Ian, do you want to say something in the end?
No, just to say thank you very much Olga, that that was a very important briefing on this around this two day mark of the blockade of a coming in to Gaza.
So thank you very much Olga.
We're thinking about you and the whole all the teams there.
Stay safe and come back to update us.
I'll now go to our next speaker, who I was on the podium with me and Matt is also coming on.
We have now colleagues from UNHCR on the left, Elizabeth Tan, who's the UNHCR Director of International Protection.
And Matt is also on the podium with us to speak about the funding crunch increases risk of violence, danger and death for refugees.
Elizabeth, thank you very much and it's a it's a pleasure to be here this morning.
There has been obviously a lot of coverage of the the cuts in humanitarian funding and the impact for people worldwide.
I wanted today to focus in particular on refugees, the impact on refugees, as well as just the protection of refugees worldwide.
So refugees are are are are different in the sense that they have crossed an international border, they have fled for their lives because of persecution or because of war and conflict.
So they are in a foreign country where they're asking that government for protection, for access to a safe place so that they can avoid the violence and risk to their lives in their country of origin.
That access to territory is something which has been a tradition worldwide.
It's embedded in history, in religious values, in cultural values of of people worldwide.
And we're seeing that because of funding shortages, because of economic conditions for host communities, those values are are at risk.
So the thing about refugees is they can't go home.
They're not the same as migrants.
They've lost the protection of their country of origin, of their government.
And so that that is why UNHR was was was created 75 years ago.
In fact, this year UNHR was created in order to protect refugees and to help states to fulfil their obligations in providing that safety for refugees.
It's enshrined in international law.
We have an International Convention, the 1951 Convention on Refugees, that sets out the international law that protects refugees worldwide.
So 2/3 of refugees live in countries that they cross the border to a neighbouring country, and 2/3 of those refugees are in countries where resources are scarce, where communities that are hosting not just a few 100 or thousands of refugees, but 10s of thousands, hundreds of thousands of refugees cross the border, which puts an enormous strain on those, on those governments, on local authorities and importantly, on host communities.
So without solidarity in those countries and without somehow a burden sharing mechanism which comes through humanitarian assistance, but also through development assistance for those host communities and for increasing the services and the ability to provide education, health and so on, that that safety in the neighbouring country is at risk.
So UNHERS role then is to support countries to accept refugees into their and onto their territory, to determine who is a refugee and who isn't, to determine to provide registration and documentation for those individuals.
It is, of course, to be done in a way that protects the sovereignty and the national security of that neighbouring country, of the country that's hosting refugees.
And so Unhcr's role is really to work with governments on that.
I wanted to talk a little bit about registration and how important that is.
It's important for identifying who is a refugee.
It's important for identifying who's most vulnerable in these resource constrained times.
Registering people and identifying who needs humanitarian assistance the most can be done through an effective registration and documentation process.
It also allows refugees to identify themselves to the police, to the local authorities to avoid being arrested, detained and sent back to their own country.
It's clear that some refugees are more vulnerable than others.
We see across the world an increase in the use of sexual violence in war situations.
We see individuals who are tortured, who are persecuted and who arrive across borders very traumatised and who needs specialised support, health support, psychosocial support, mental health support.
And also children who are separated from their families or who have crossed the border alone, who are extremely vulnerable to being recruited into armed groups, to being trafficked, to being exploited for labour, sexual exploitation.
So those those are the kinds of specialised services that UNHER and partners provide in those neighbouring countries.
And it's essential that that is provided as soon as people arrive.
This is not a luxury, it is life saving.
We see already that even before the current financial difficulties that humanitarian agencies and host governments are facing, there was already insufficient attention to those specialised protection services.
So in in the briefing note that you will receive there are some examples of how that is affecting women and girls, women and girls who are currently enter who have just arrived recently in Burundi and for home services to protect children who have crossed the border alone and women who have been raped in the DRC.
We know that that is a serious risk that women face in the DRC on a daily basis and these women arrive traumatised and in need of that basic protection, health and social support.
The other populations that are risk are risk are our youth.
So oftentimes youth are particularly vulnerable to being recruited into armed groups, labour exploitation, but also are risk of onward movements.
Their families may find no other option but to send them to 1/3 country where on those routes they face enormous danger and are often exploited and subjected to serious harm.
So there are good reasons for ensuring that there is stability in the first country of asylum in that neighbouring country to their own.
I wanted to talk a little bit about voluntary repatriation because obviously our job is to look for solutions, long term solutions for refugees.
No one wants to be a refugee for life or as we currently see, multi generational displacement.
Even there where there are opportunities for people to go home, we see people going home to Syria, we see people going home to the Central African Republic, to Somalia.
The support for that, those returns, even if it is in adverse circumstances, people have agency over them, over their own fate, and so they may decide to return home without reintegration support, even just support for for transportation and basic cash or shelter support so that they can house themselves when they get home.
We see that we have 12,000 Central African refugees and Chad and Cameroon who've said we want to go home, we need funds in order to help them to get home.
The the, the journey is long and difficult and we need some support that does not need to come from UNHCR inside the Central African Republic to ensure that those returns are sustainable.
So I wanted to finish just by saying that the institution of asylum that we covered so dearly in a human rights perspective, that people who are flee, fleeing danger and persecution are safeguarded and are given access to that, to that safety is is is in ******.
And we see that governments are are are raising the alarm bells.
Uganda that has a tradition of hosting again, they're not hundreds of 1000, but over 1,000,000 refugees has raised the alarm bells.
There are continually refugees arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as from from South Sudan and other countries, and they're saying we can't continue with this unless that international solidarity is there.
We cannot continue to host this number of refugees.
Host communities have that similar sentiment.
They count upon international support to ensure that their standard of living is not deteriorating.
And in fact, they would like to see that the rival and the hospitality towards refugees in fact increases their their standard of living, that they have better access to education, to health care, to jobs and a stimulation of the economy.
And lastly then I wanted to just re emphasise that if refugees don't find safety in an immediately neighbouring country, they will either be forced to go back to a situation of harm or they may move on to other countries.
And not only is that does that pose a risk for them on dangerous journeys, but it also results in, in, in, in, in other countries needing to deal with with increased arrivals and a decreasing willingness to to host refugees.
So I, I think that to sum it up, that responsibility sharing and solidarity, which shows itself firstly in terms of support to host countries, support to the agencies, UNHR, but the many agencies that and NGOs and civil society groups that support refugees and also providing opportunities for refugees through resettlement.
We've seen a decline in resettlement of individuals to third countries.
That kind of solidarity is, is is under ****** and we're looking really for that to be re established.
And I think this is one of the major issues in terms of the current financial crisis that the humanitarian sector is is experiencing.
Thank you very much, Elizabeth.
This is so important to, you know, put the spotlight on this very important issue.
Yeah, hi, thanks for the briefing.
I was wondering if you have any, if you could say specifically what, what areas which, which refugees are most likely to to lose their their support.
If you have any numbers on, on how many refugees will be losing support due to the the cuts.
And you talked about resettlement, obviously the resettlement to the US is, is no longer functioning.
If you could say what impact that is having?
No, thank you for the question.
I think refugees are affected worldwide.
There isn't a single country where refugees are not not affected, in particular those who are living in countries who really lack the resources to provide themselves for those for those refugees.
So I, I can't right now give you numbers in the briefing note, you will see some examples with specific numbers about how many individuals are affected because for example, gender based violence programming has been halted.
And again, this is not just UNHCR, there are many other UN agencies and NGOs whose programming is severely affected.
But, but just to say that if we take for example, the, the, the gender based violence programming, even before these financial cuts, only 38% of of the RRPS, that's the refugee response plans for for example, Syria, Sudan, the Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh were, were, were were only 38% funding and that's even now going down.
So, so just to say that the effect is really very serious on resettlement indeed, the the United States has been the most generous country traditionally in terms of receiving refugees from from all over the world, from all different nationalities.
The loss of that resettlement programme is a huge blow for refugees worldwide and we see significant impact for individuals.
Resettlement is of course a solution only for a small number, but that solution is life saving and we have seen very, very distressed refugees who are, you know, who have now a sense of hopelessness.
We're hopeful, I need to say that there are other resettlement countries who do continue with their resettlement programme and that is that's extremely important.
So we'll just continue to work on this.
I think it's also useful to say that it's not only resettlement.
There are other ways in which refugees can, for example, through labour migration, access the labour market in third countries and and in that way contribute towards the economy of of a third country and so.
We will continue to work on this.
It's not resettlement is still alive, but it is, of course, under serious ******.
And I think that's where that element of burden and responsibility sharing is, is so important.
Is there any other question for Elizabeth online or in the room?
So thank you very much for this important update, Elizabeth, and thanks, Matt.
Is that a question for UNHCR?
Emma Farge, Reuters, Sorry, it's a more general one, but it is for UNHCR, but it's not on the specific topic.
Yeah, I think both Elizabeth and Martha can maybe answer your question.
Reuters saw a memo yesterday on a series of structural changes being floated by the UNAT task force.
Some of those ideas include merging UN agencies, including humanitarian agencies, development agencies together.
For example, it it talks about a merger of human HCR and IOM.
I'm looking for reactions to some of these ideas.
Do you think they're good ones?
Do you think they're necessary?
And I think in terms of the broader floated reforms for the UN system, I would I would let Alessandra and other colleagues in New York speak to that.
And I think what what I would say is Elizabeth has very, very eloquently demonstrated the unique mandate that UNHCR has in protecting refugees, people forced to flee due to war and persecution and who cannot benefit from the protection of their country of origin.
So in the current severely constrained funding environment, we are with all other UN humanitarian agencies and partners, including the IOM and Ocho who you heard from this morning and WFP and WHO exploring ways to bring greater efficiencies across the sector.
I think that's all I can say on that in terms of the UN wide proposals that have been floated.
Matt, I think the question was specific about this, but if you have more questions I can answer too, of course, with pleasure.
Let me see if there's any other questions.
So thank you very much, Matt.
And OK, Matt, Emma says question was for any UN agency.
I think here we have UNHCR.
So UNHCR has answered, I'm sure you you can reach out to colleagues.
I'm looking at other colleagues connected or in the room if anybody wants to volunteer any question, any answer don't see, but please reach out to to the agencies you want to to have an answer from.
No, I don't see any other hand up.
I've got a few announcements for you.
First of all, UNDPUNDP has asked me to to inform you that they will release the 2025 Human Development Report next Tuesday.
This new edition of their public flagship publication is titled A Matter of Choice, People and Possibilities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
It reveals A travelling new reality.
Human development is losing momentum and is precariously fragile, while inequalities between rich and poor countries continue to widen.
Without action, the world could find itself on the brink of a development crisis.
This year the report addresses one of the Seminole issues of our time, artificial intelligence and its implications for human development.
It advocates for human centred approach to AI which has the potential to fundamentally redesign approaches to development.
A global survey including this part of the launch reveals that people worldwide are ready for this kind of reset.
Human Repairment Report is now in this 35th year and is one of the major UN publication with its report and that are typically reaching over 3 million people from over 220 countries and territories every year.
Please reach out to your ND PS communication focal point in Geneva, Sarabelle.
She will be able to provide you with embargoed materials and interview opportunities on the human right side.
Let me remind you that the Committee Against Torture is ending the 82nd session this morning.
They were releasing concluding observations regarding the report submitted during the session by Armenia, France, Mauritius, Monaco, Turkmenistan and Ukraine.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is concluding this morning the review of the report of Kyrgyzstan.
And Please note that the second part of the 2025 session of the Conference on Disarmament will officially begin on the 12th of May.
That will still be under the the Presidency of Kazakhstan.
I also wanted to, well Nina, Nina has reminded us, but to give you a little bit of a of the message of the Secretary General for World Press Freedom Day.
This, as you know, the international community commemorates on the 3rd of May.
The Secretary General says that in a world plugged by conflict and division, freedom for people depends on freedom of the press.
Free and independent journalism is essential public good.
When journalists are unable to work, we all lose.
This is becoming more difficult every year and more dangerous, says the Secretary General.
As this year's team remind us, press freedom faces an unprecedented ******.
Artificial intelligence can support freedom of expression or stifle it.
Biassed algorithms, outright lies and hate speech are land mines on the information superhighways.
Accurate, verifiable, fact based information is the best tool to diffuse them.
The Global Digital Compact adopted last year includes concrete steps to strengthen international cooperation to promote information integrity, tolerance and respect in the digital space.
And the second, the Secretary General.
To conclude on this World Press Freedom Day, let's commit to make this a reality and safeguard press freedom and the press everywhere.
And you have the full statement in your mailboxes.
So this is what I had for you in terms of announcement if there are no other questions and I don't see any hand up.
Let me wish you a very good weekend and see you next week.
