| Date | 22 November 1999 |
|---|---|
| Started | 10:00 |
| Ended | 13:10 |
Instructions
Click on the Link to this button beside the speech or paragraph to expand it to a useful panel containing:
- The date of the speech
- A link to the original page of the PDF document
- A URL that can be used in most blogs
- A structured Citation template suitable for use in a Wikipedia article.
Those last two rows ("URL" and "wiki") use textboxes to hide most of the text.
To access this text, right-click in the textbox with your mouse and choose "Select All", then right-click again and choose "Copy". Now you can right-click into another window and choose "Paste" to get the text.
Agenda item 20 (continued)
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance
Report of the Secretary-General (A/54/619)
(a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
Report of the Secretary-General (A/54/154 and Add.1)
Draft resolution (A/54/L.17/Rev.1)
(b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions
Reports of the Secretary-General (A/54/129/Rev.1, A/54/130/Rev.1, A/54/153, A/54/278, A/54/294, A/54/295, A/54/296, A/54/350, A/54/421, A/54/462, A/54/534)
Draft resolution (A/54/L.29)
(c) Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
Report of the Secretary-General (A/54/449)
Draft resolution (A/54/L.22)
(d) Participation of volunteers, "White Helmets", in activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical cooperation for development
Report of the Secretary-General (A/54/217)
(e) Assistance to the Palestinian people
Report of the Secretary-General (A/54/134)
Mr. Ismoilov (Tajikistan)
The delegation of Tajikistan believes that the report of the Secretary-General on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, contained in document A/54/154, provides a good analysis of the successes and problems of United Nations activities in this area. The report's emphasis on the timely and well-planned implementation of at least some elements of rehabilitation, reconstruction and development activities, even during conflict, is of particular significance to our country, in view of the fact that an early beginning of reconstruction and development activities in a post-conflict environment can help supplement and strengthen political stability and the implementation of peace agreements. The peace process in Tajikistan needs active support from the international community now more than ever both in the humanitarian field and in the long-term context of restoring and developing by the economy.
We fully agree with the appraisal and conclusions given in the Secretary-General's report entitled "Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and rehabilitation in Tajikistan", contained in document A/54/294.
In spite of progress in the peace process, in the enactment of economic reforms and in the security situation in our country, hundreds of thousands of Tajiks continue to require international humanitarian assistance in order to meet their basic needs. We are deeply grateful to our friends, including countries, international organizations and particularly specialized agencies of the United Nations, for lending assistance to the people of Tajikistan.
As is rightly pointed out in the Secretary-General's report, despite the significance of humanitarian operations to promote and ensure peace and stability, the donor response to the consolidated inter-agency appeals for Tajikistan in 1998 and 1999 was not as encouraging as it might have been; however, we note with satisfaction the increase in the response of the humanitarian community to the 1999 appeal.
Insufficient funding in response to humanitarian appeals is one of the major factors limiting United Nations capabilities in lending humanitarian assistance, and this problem, unfortunately, is inherent in many United Nations humanitarian operations. We agree with the Secretary-General's special concern over the lack of support for assistance programmes providing foodstuffs and medical supplies designed to save people's lives. The implementation of those programmes requires that we ensure immediate financing so as to avoid an aggravation of the already difficult social situation in Tajikistan. In this respect, we support the United Nations intention to hold an evaluation of humanitarian assistance in the year 2000, with a view to solving the problems of long-term development. As long as the economy is not able to support the entire population of Tajikistan, and as long as the peace process is not completed, humanitarian operations will remain an important factor for ensuring stability in Tajikistan, as emphasized in the Secretary-General's report.
We highly value the work done by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. We support the activities of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee; useful recommendations have been elaborated within its framework to improve United Nations humanitarian activities.
An important and useful discussion on various aspects of United Nations humanitarian assistance took place at the Economic and Social Council's summer session. The agreed conclusions of the humanitarian segment adopted by the Economic and Social Council are an important document, providing guidelines to institutions and bodies of the United Nations system acting within the framework of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee for the further improvement and coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance, in particular in such a complex and important issue as emergency assistance for restoration, rehabilitation, reconstruction and development in times of natural disasters and in complex emergency situations. This, as is well known, especially applies to Tajikistan.
In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in the number of large-scale natural disasters, including hurricanes Mitch and Georges; earthquakes in Afghanistan, Colombia, Turkey, Greece and Taiwan; flooding in Bangladesh, India, China and Nepal; and forest fires in Brazil, Indonesia and Russia. There was a significant increase in both loss of human life and material loss for the year 1998 alone as a result of natural disasters: more than 50,000 people died, and the economic damage amounted to approximately $100 billion.
We highly value the United Nations system's activities in coordinating the reduction of natural disasters. In this connection, we believe it appropriate to make greater use of the Central Emergency Revolving Fund's resources for activities pertaining to natural disasters and technological catastrophes. Tajikistan is in an area of a potential large-scale environmental disaster if the dam holding back Lake Sarez were to collapse. As a result, not only Tajikistan but also Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan would find themselves faced with irreparable catastrophe. We note with satisfaction that the leadership of the United Nations Secretariat, in particular the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, is showing due consideration for this problem and an interest in cooperation with Tajikistan in warding off this threat.
We highly value United Nations efforts in lending humanitarian assistance to all countries, without exception, because of needs that might arise as a result of complex emergency situations, natural disasters or technological catastrophes. We believe it important to continue United Nations activities to mobilize assistance and eliminate the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Although 13 years have already passed since the Chernobyl disaster, its consequences continue to be felt just as sorely, since, objectively, they are of a long-term nature. With the current difficult financial situation, we believe it important to seek non-traditional ways to carry out United Nations projects and programmes, in particular in lending emergency and rehabilitation assistance. In this context, we support the Argentine "White Helmets" initiative, which provides for the use of national volunteer corps in international operations to lend assistance in emergency situations.
We value the efforts of the international community in lending humanitarian assistance to the suffering people of Afghanistan, without any discrimination whatsoever. We believe, however, that such assistance must be linked to the readiness of the parties in Afghanistan to seek a political solution to the conflict, to ensure safe conditions for the activities of international organizations in Afghanistan and to take measures to combat illegal drug trafficking and terrorism.
At this session, the delegation of Tajikistan has once again submitted to the General Assembly a draft resolution on emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and rehabilitation in Tajikistan. We are deeply grateful to those countries that have become sponsors of the draft resolution, and we are counting on the support of all Member States in view of the significance for the international community of normalcy and rehabilitation in Tajikistan.
Mr. Semakula Kiwanuka (Uganda)
--> -->
| <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'> | Python 2.6.6: /usr/bin/python Sat May 25 09:17:51 2013 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in |
| 194 if __name__ == "__main__": |
| 195 pathpart = os.getenv("PATH_INFO") |
| 196 maintrunk(pathpart) |
| 197 |
| 198 |
| maintrunk = <function maintrunk>, pathpart = '/generalassembly_54/meeting_60/highlight_A-54-L.31' |
| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in maintrunk(pathpart='/generalassembly_54/meeting_60/highlight_A-54-L.31') |
| 131 elif pagefunc == "gameeting": |
| 132 LogIncomingDB(hmap["docid"], hmap["gadice"] or "0", referrer, ipaddress, useragent, remadeurl) |
| 133 WriteHTML(hmap["htmlfile"], hmap["pdfinfo"], hmap["gadice"], hmap["highlightdoclink"]) |
| 134 elif pagefunc == "agendanumexpanded": |
| 135 LogIncomingDB(pagefunc, hmap["agendanum"], referrer, ipaddress, useragent, remadeurl) |
| global WriteHTML = <function WriteHTML>, hmap = {'docid': 'A-54-PV.60', 'gadice': '', 'gameeting': 60, 'gasession': 54, 'highlightdoclink': 'A-54-L.31', 'htmlfile': '/home/undemocracy/undata/html/A-54-PV.60.html', 'pagefunc': 'gameeting', 'pdfinfo': <pdfinfo.PdfInfo instance>} |
| /home/undemocracy/unparse-live/web2/unpvmeeting.py in WriteHTML(fhtml='/home/undemocracy/undata/html/A-54-PV.60.html', pdfinfo=<pdfinfo.PdfInfo instance>, gadice='', highlightth='A-54-L.31') |
| 322 if dclass == "spoken": |
| 323 if not gadice or agendagidcurrent == gadice: |
| 324 WriteSpoken(gid, dtextmu, councilpresidentnation) |
| 325 elif dclass == "subheading": |
| 326 if agendagidcurrent and (not gadice or agendagidcurrent == gadice): |
| global WriteSpoken = <function WriteSpoken>, gid = u'pg003-bk01', dtextmu = u'<h3 class="speaker"> <span class="name">Mr. Sema...rate with him to cope with these emergencies.</p>', councilpresidentnation = None |
| /home/undemocracy/unparse-live/web2/unpvmeeting.py in WriteSpoken(gid=u'pg003-bk01', dtext=u'<h3 class="speaker"> <span class="name">Mr. Sema...rate with him to cope with these emergencies.</p>', councilpresidentnation=None) |
| 69 print '</cite>' |
| 70 |
| 71 print dtext[mspek.end(0):] |
| 72 |
| 73 print '</div>' |
| dtext = u'<h3 class="speaker"> <span class="name">Mr. Sema...rate with him to cope with these emergencies.</p>', mspek = <_sre.SRE_Match object>, mspek.end = <built-in method end of _sre.SRE_Match object> |
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 599: ordinal not in range(128)
args =
('ascii', u'\n\t<p id="pg003-bk01-pa01">We are meeting at a ti...rate with him to cope with these emergencies.</p>', 599, 600, 'ordinal not in range(128)')
encoding =
'ascii'
end =
600
message =
''
object =
u'\n\t<p id="pg003-bk01-pa01">We are meeting at a ti...rate with him to cope with these emergencies.</p>'
reason =
'ordinal not in range(128)'
start =
599