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Statements and Speeches by Senior OCHA Officials

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2008

2007

  • Headquarters Press Conference by Margareta Wahlstrom, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, in which she briefed correspondents on UN relief efforts in response to natural disasters, 24 August 2007
  • Press Statement by the interim Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) condemning the attack on the World Food Program (WFP) truck in Karamoja, Uganda, in which a staff member Richard Achuka was killed, 31 May 2007

2006

  • Statement by Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Margareta Wahlstrom, to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon, 18 August 2006
  • Statement by Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Margareta Wahlstrom, to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon, 3 August 2006
  • Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Margareta Wahlstrom, as guest at the Noon Briefing, briefs on the launch of the Flash Appeal for Lebanon, 24 July 2006
  • Dennis McNamara, special UN adviser on internal displacement, calls for a halt to arms sales to Africa, saying it would be more effective in addressing the continent's poverty than charity rock concerts or debt relief, 02 February 2006

2005

  • Headquarters Press Conference by Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Margareta Walstrohm on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the tsunami disaster, 22 December 2005
  • Opening remarks by Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Margareta Walstrohm at the Regional Consultation on the Sahel held in Dakar, 15 November 2005 (French only)
  • "Where Hope Begins", speech by Opia Mensah Kumah, Chief, Advocacy and Information Management Branch, on Africa's future, at an event organised to honour the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), New York, 19 October 2005
  • Speech by Opia M. Kumah, Chief, Advocacy and Information Management Branch, on the future of humanitarian advocacy and lessons from the tsunami disaster, 20 July 2005
  • Notes from the press briefing by Kevin M. Kennedy, Director, Coordination and Response Division, on the situation in South Asia following the earthquake and tsunami, 18 January 2005

2004

  • Speech by Ross Mountain, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Coordinator for Iraq, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the bombing of UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Amman, 19 August 2004
  • Statement from the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Zimbabwe, Mr. Victor Angelo, on the Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission, Harare, 11 May 2004

2003

  • Headquarters Press Briefing on the Mission of Secretary-General's Humanitarian Envoy to Côte d'Ivoire (DERC), New York, 10 January 2003

2002

2001

2000

  • Statement on the Allegations against Operation Lifeline Sudan (AERC), Geneva, 01 August 2000

 

1999

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