UNITED NATIONS RELIEF, WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES COPES WITH MAJOR CRISES IN THREE FIELDS OF OPERATIONS, COMMISSIONER-GENERAL TELLS FOURTH COMMITTEE
October 29, 2008
October 29, 2008
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 29 -- The United Nations issued the following press release:
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had never before coped with major crises in three fields of operations simultaneously, the Agency's head said this morning, stressing that the depth of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank over the past two years dwarfed earlier calamities and carried alarming economic and human costs.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had never before coped with major crises in three fields of operations simultaneously, the Agency's head said this morning, stressing that the depth of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank over the past two years dwarfed earlier calamities and carried alarming economic and human costs.
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