Egypt. Egypt... was a stricken land.

Considering the present situation Svaneti shall be declared a zone of distress.

We want our experience to inspire other trouble regions so that we can help humankind.

The HIV AIDS scourge continues to plague our communities in Africa.

In this poor West African nation wracked by war, poverty and most recently Ebola, reading is not something people generally do for pleasure.

That has led my Government to declare three of the 10 administrative regions of Guyana, including our nation's capital, as disaster areas.

While other struggling eurozone members also turned to the troika, Ireland stands out in at least two notable ways.

This nation is doomed by a president who lies and makes false promises while the workers and unemployed pay every day the price of this injustice and lies of the president

Owing to widespread concern about insufficient protection for internally displaced persons in several conflict ridden countries, the Division is currently exploring a number of initiatives to enhance their protection.

Among other ills, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment still plague Timor Leste and will continue to hamper its nation building process and national development for some time in the future.

Lasting world peace and stability will remain elusive if the developing countries are still beset by persistent political unrest and if the North South gap continues to widen.

Our emergency and ongoing humanitarian assistance has brought Israeli know how, expertise and equipment to the aid of suffering populations in places as diverse as Cambodia, Armenia, Moldova, Georgia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and others.

Aware that Afghanistan continues to suffer from an extremely critical economic situation as a land locked, least developed and war stricken country,

Burundi continued to be one of the five countries with the lowest human development index in the world, afflicted by high rates of disease and precarious living conditions and offering its citizens little access to health care.

It accepted 135,000 Vietnamese refugees in the 1970 s a much higher total on a per capita basis than any other country, including the US and ever since has maintained its status as one of the top two or three recipient countries for resettlement generally.

It is clear that the collapse of the cold war world order has had a significant impact on this region as well, to the extent that the region had come to be afflicted, in both political and economic contexts, by the confrontation between East and West from the beginning of the tragic course of events that commenced immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War.