United Nations General Assembly today will hold a special session of the floods in Pakistan
International Online reports (Xinhua Shen Ting) Neixierji 18, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters in New York, said the United Nations General Assembly will be held on the 19th special session of the floods in Pakistan, had just returned from Pakistan visited the United Nations Secretary-General Pan text-based delegates will be informed of the disaster, and once again appeal to the international community assistance.
Neixierji said that according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs briefing, Ban Ki-moon and everyone in the Road, a multi-call relief agencies, the recent days, Pakistan's assistance to the international community has the speed and number of increased, but compared with the actual needs, funding remained inadequate. Current aid funds actually received 227.8 million U.S. dollars, accounting for about half the funds needed; donor has pledged but not yet credited into account the funds are 42.1 million U.S. dollars. He stressed that the efforts of the international donor community must continue for some time.
Neixierji said that in the 19th United Nations General Assembly convened the special meeting of the Pakistan floods, Ban Ki-moon to the delegates will report on the disaster in Pakistan, and will use this opportunity to Member States and donors who again appealed deeply aware of the floods that they caused huge losses to Pakistan, do its utmost, with the fastest speed to provide adequate assistance.
According to Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that there are at least 6 million to 8 million Pakistanis, there is an urgent need of emergency assistance, including 3.5 million children. Many affected communities are still waiting for access to food, clean water, basic sanitation services and medical health care and other basic assistance.
