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Statements and speeches by John Holmes,
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
and Emergency Relief Coordinator in 2007

Statements/speeches at the United Nations and its organs/bodies

  • Opening statement of the Emergency Relief Coordinator at the launch of the 2008 Sudan Work Plan in Geneva, 11 December 2007

  • Briefing to the Security Council on the Situation in Africa:  Humanitarian Affairs in Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, 6 December 2007

  • Statement of the Emergency Relief Coordinator to the Security Council on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 20 November 2007

  • Keynote address at Global Symposium 5, Geneva, 25 October 2007

  • Speech to Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP), Geneva, 22 October 2007

  • USG article on Climate Change to the Commonwealth Heads of State Summit in Kampala, Uganda. Published by the Henley Media Group, 16 October 2007 

  • Speech to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Humanitarian Symposium, 12 September 2007 

  • Briefing to Security Council on mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 11 September 2007

  • Speech marking the first anniversary of the killing of Action contre la Faim (ACF) staff in Muttur, Sri Lanka, 6 August 2007

  • Speech at the opening of the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment in Geneva, 16 July 2007

  • Statement to the Security Council on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 22 June 2007

  • Keynote speech at the launch of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 05 June 2007

  • Statement to the Security Council on the Situation in Africa: Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia and Uganda, 21 May 2007

  • Statement to Conference on Addressing the Humanitarian Needs of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons inside Iraq and in Neighboring Countries, Geneva, 17 April 2007

  • Statement to the Security Council on the Situation in Africa: Humanitarian Affairs in the Sudan, Chad and CAR, 4 April 2007