UN Security Council cuts March schedule over coronavirus

The UN Security Council will downsize its schedule for March as a safety measure against the new-coronavirus pandemic, China said on Wednesday.

China, which holds the administration of the Security Council during March and is likewise the focal point of the infection, needs to guarantee "we will be in a superior situation to ensure ourselves," said its envoy, Zhang Jun.

While no Security Council meetings will be dropped, China has urged a "downsizing of the gatherings" including diminishing designation sizes; Zhang told journalists.

Casual counsels inside the incredible 15-part body may likewise be moved to a bigger room so "that we have more space and fewer individuals," he said.

The United Nations has pushed back significant get-togethers outside of the Security Council. On Wednesday it inconclusively postponed a March 23-April 3 gathering on marine biodiversity just as an April 13-24 discussion on indigenous issues.

It had just delayed a March yearly gathering on the status of ladies that would have carried 12,000 individuals to New York.

A UN official, talking namelessly, said the association ought likewise to delay the five-year survey meeting of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which is booked for April 27-May 22.

No instances of COVID-19 have been accounted for inside the 3,000-in number UN Secretariat, said the world body's representative, Stephane Dujarric.

The United Nations has stopped visits, and a significant part of the staff have been approached to work remotely, Dujarric said.