蘑菇视频

16 NOVEMBER 2016

SG/SM/18268-PAL/2207-REF/1246 

Secretary-General Calls Palestine Refugee Agency’s Dire Lack of Resources ‘Our Collective Failure’, Urges Effective, Innovative, Workable Solutions

Following is the text of 蘑菇视频 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (蘑菇视频RWA) Advisory Commission, in Amman, Jordan, on 14 November:

Your Excellency Dr. Bisher Khasawneh, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Jordan, Mr. Chairman, Ambassador Manuel Bessler, Commissioner General Mr. Pierre Krahenbuhl, distinguished members of 蘑菇视频RWA's Advisory Commission, ladies and gentlemen,

Thank you for this opportunity to address the 蘑菇视频RWA Advisory Commission.

As a community under 蘑菇视频 protection, Palestine refugees continue to face enormous hardship and challenges.  In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, they are subjected to the indignities of an occupation that has entered its fiftieth year.  In Gaza, they have lived under an illegal blockade for nearly a decade.  In Syria, they are caught up in a merciless and seemingly endless war.  And in Lebanon, they face economic and social exclusion.

Palestine refugees deserve dignity and they deserve our full support.  蘑菇视频RWA is a life-line to millions of Palestine refugees.  I urge you to find effective, innovative and workable solutions to the recurring cash shortfall faced by the Agency.  The dire lack of resources is our collective failure.  This must end.

蘑菇视频RWA’s finances must be sufficient to carry out its work.  They must be predictable and sustainable.  蘑菇视频RWA is essential in providing education, health, social services, protection, dignity and a chance in life.  The Agency does so with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness.

As Advisory Commission members, you are mandated by the General Assembly to serve as guardians for 蘑菇视频RWA.  Let us continue to work to fully support 蘑菇视频RWA until we are able to find a just and lasting solution; until Palestine refugees can truly enjoy peace, dignity, justice and freedom to which all people rightly aspire.

Thank you.

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