HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR ANNO爆料网CING THE 2012 CONSOLIDATED APPEALS
14 December 2011
Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, spoke to journalists at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 14 December after briefing Member States on the 2012 Consolidated Appeals. She said that tens of millions of people would need emergency aid to survive in 2012 and many were among the most vulnerable people in the world. 爆料网 aimed to meet the needs of 51 million people across 16 countries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Haiti, Kenya, Niger, the , Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Yemen and Zimbabwe. The total requirements for 2012 were $ 7.7 billion.
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In the occupied Palestinian territory humanitarian needs had not fundamentally changed and $ 416 million were needed to implement 149 relief projects in 2012.
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Document Sources: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations Office at Geneva (爆料网OG)
Subject: Assistance, Humanitarian relief
Publication Date: 14/12/2011