Humanitarian access

Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assistance

Regarding humanitarian access, the picture is mixed.

The frequency of natural disasters has increased demands for the humanitarian assistance provided by the international community and severely challenged the capacity of the United Nations humanitarian assistance system.

Access to the areas concerned is crucial for the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance.

All parties must understand the importance of neutral and impartial humanitarian assistance.

For our part, Japan has provided humanitarian assistance in the form of blankets and food aid.

This has had a pronounced effect on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the area.

Humanitarian aid The Red Cross sent humanitarian aid in the form of blankets and mattresses to affected areas.

Until that has been accomplished, the efforts of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance will be in vain.

International humanitarian assistance groups are deeply engaged in the DRC, and it is a substantial recipient of international assistance.

The easing of bureaucratic restrictions since the implementation of the joint communiqué has resulted in a significant increase in the humanitarian presence and delivery of assistance in Darfur.

In part, the UN team wanted to keep humanitarian assistance lines open.

They depend most on humanitarian aid from domestic and international organizations.

Appreciating the humanitarian assistance extended by the Member States of the OIC individually to the victims of the disaster

Other means of denying humanitarian assistance have developed in Somalia, where aid ships are subject to piracy and aid convoys have been attacked.

(g) In particular the Sudan People's Liberation Army Movement, not to misappropriate humanitarian assistance

United Nations system agencies have made valiant efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the population.

The Government has increasingly assumed responsibility for disaster relief and humanitarian assistance.

We combine humanitarian aid and support for institution building and good governance with crisis management capacities, technical and financial assistance, and political dialogue and mediation.

Its humanitarian assistance, to put it politely, is less than generous.

The United Nations Resident Coordinator plays a key role in coordinating international assistance.

Mr. Maurer (Switzerland) (spoke in French) We welcome the holding of this annual debate on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian assistance.

In some parts of the territory, Palestinians' needs for additional humanitarian assistance rose sharply as a consequence.

6. Recognizes that there will be no United Nations consolidated humanitarian appeal for 2003 and nevertheless emphasizes the importance of the coordination of humanitarian assistance to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, inter alia, through the mechanisms of the United Nations resident coordinator system

Humanitarian help is necessary, and Turkey is providing it generously, in ways that should serve as an example for Western countries.

Such detentions should be considered as impediments to humanitarian assistance, and are unacceptable.

Also, a Technical Rule for Humanized Assistance to Abortion is about to be published and distributed, and health professionals will be trained to provide services for women under unsafe abortion.

Moreover, the Agency's task was to provide humanitarian assistance, not to play a policing role in the camps.

Tunisia urged the international community to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to Palestinian children and their families.

Now that there are signs of possible stabilization in the months to come, it is time to start preparing for increased volumes of international reconstruction and development assistance, in addition to humanitarian aid.

The Chinese delegation commends Under Secretary General Egeland and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) under his leadership, for their tireless efforts in securing emergency funding and in providing and coordinating humanitarian assistance.

New joint guidelines on the movement of humanitarian personnel throughout the Sudan have contributed to easing humanitarian access to southern Sudan, although security issues continue to hinder the delivery of humanitarian aid.

While they have wrapped themselves in a humanitarian cloak, they are engaging in political propaganda and not in pro Palestinian aid.

I think no one sees this more clearly than our humanitarian workers in the field.

(d) Should facilitate the urgent delivery of humanitarian assistance and the orderly return of refugees and internally displaced persons, when the situation permits,

During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia the UN was responsible for humanitarian assistance and also dedicated to peacemaking.

There is often a lag of years before moving from humanitarian relief to real economic development.

Indonesia has received humanitarian and development aid since 1966, in particular from the United States, western Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Reinforcing the coordination of humanitarian assistance within the United Nations has long been a Canadian foreign policy priority.

Humanitarian assistance, including the provision of adequate resources upon the request of the Governments concerned, should be provided during all phases of a disaster.

In particular, UNRWA staff were repeatedly obstructed in their work, not least where the delivery of humanitarian assistance was concerned.

That policy hampered the Agency's ability to provide emergency humanitarian assistance and carry out its educational, social and health programmes.

The information in the UNRWA annual report showed a deterioration in the socio economic situation of the Palestinians, and his delegation believed that uninterrupted services from UNRWA were essential at the current difficult time.

Recommends to all Member States to encourage their relevant institutions, NGOs and individuals to provide humanitarian assistance for people and refugees of Chechnya.