Wednesday, March 21, 2007
UNHCR to hold international conference on Iraqi IDPs, refugees
Humanitarian, International
(UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said a major conference in Geneva in April is aimed at increasing awareness of the humanitarian scale of the Iraq conflict and winning international support for tackling the problems. Participants at the April 17-18 ministerial-level meeting in Geneva's Palais des Nations would also try to identify more targeted responses to specific problems, UNHCR's chief spokesman, Ron Redmond, told reporters, while adding that it was not specifically a pledging or donor conference. "The conference will bring together Iraqi authorities and those of neighbouring countries, major refugee-hosting states, major donor countries, resettlement countries, concerned regional governmental organisations, NGOs, UN and non-UN partners and others," Redmond said.
