UN announces lifting of the state of emergency to the highest level in Iraq
UN announces lifting of the state of emergency to the highest level in Iraq
08/14/2014 12:51
Agencies – The United Nations announced Thursday, lifting the state of emergency to the highest level in Iraq, attributed largely to the size of the current humanitarian disaster and the complexity of the country, as pointed out that a large number of Yazidis and Christians trapped in northern Iraq.
He said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nikolay Mladenov said in a statement, “it was the lifting of the state of extreme emergency to ensure the humanitarian response more effective, attributing the reason to the” magnitude of the current humanitarian disaster and complexity. ”
Mladenov said that “the lifting of the state of emergency declaration will facilitate the mobilization of additional resources in the form of goods and funds and assets to ensure a more effective response to the humanitarian needs of people affected by the special operations forced displacement.”
He stressed Mladenov said “Declaration of raising the crisis in Iraq to a state of emergency of the third class, which represents the highest degree of the humanitarian crisis, will contribute to the launch of more resources and accelerate administrative procedures for responding,” noting that “there are three other crises in the world today to the same degree , a crisis in Syria and South Sudan and the Central African Republic “RO / h
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