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Afghanistan
UN intends $606 million for 11 million Afghans for rest of 2021
2021-09-12
About the world accepting the new Talib government..
.[KhaamaPress] UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
has called on the International community to join him in Geneva both in person and virtually and pledge their tangible support to address the critical humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

Antonio Guterres said that now is the time for the world to show solidarity with the people of Afghanistan.

United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
plans to convene a high-level ministerial meeting on Afghanistan in Geneva on September 13 in which the world will address the humanitarian crisis and aid in Afghanistan.

A statement released by the UN reads that UN agencies and non-governmental partners have launched a Flash Appeal seeking US$606 million for the remainder of the year to bring vital relief to 11 million people in Afghanistan.

The statement reads that people in Afghanistan urgently need food, medicine, health services, safe water, sanitation, and protection.

"International and Afghan humanitarian organizations are on the ground and can deliver in a rapidly changed context." Reads the statement.

The statement also added that the aid envoys should be provided with the fund and full access to around Afghanistan and their safety should be ensured.

Earlier, UN secretary-General’s special representative to Afghanistan Deborah Lyons had called on the international community to leave politics aside and provide the people of Afghanistan with relief assistance and withhold humanitarian crisis.
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