Delegation of Belarus participates in Humanitarian Affairs Segment of ECOSOC
23 June 201723-06-2017
On June 21-23, 2017 at the UN Office in Geneva the Head of the Directorate for Multilateral Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Larysa Belaskaya, takes part in the session of the Humanitarian Affairs Segment of ECOSOC.
In her statement during the general discussion, L.Belskaya drew the attention to the necessity of coordinated efforts of the international community to prevent humanitarian crises. In particular, Belarusian diplomat mentioned the importance of strengthening countries’ wellbeing in the context of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the necessity to take additional coordinated efforts to fight against international terrorism, the importance of implementation of Paris Agreement on climate change, as well as the capacity building of national hydrometeorological services to increase preparedness to natural disasters. Belarus’ delegation further underlined existing potential of strengthening the cooperation between UNOCHA and World Meteorological Organization.
L.Belskaya highlighted Belarus’ efforts to overall update the information on its humanitarian activities in the UNOCHA humanitarian aid data, and recalled the workshop that had been held jointly be Belarus and UNOCHA in Minsk in September 2016 on the functioning of the international humanitarian system and providing international humanitarian aid.
Being an active partner of the UN humanitarian activities, Belarus provided humanitarian aid of more than 1 mln US dollars to Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Syria and Ukraine in 2016-2017.
The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O’Brien, the Vice-President of ECOSOC, Jürgen Schulz, as well as the Head of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Geneva, Rudolf Müller, participated in the opening ceremony.
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