2023-12-26 21:39:35
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Tuesday the appointment of Dutchwoman Sigrid Kaag as Senior Coordinator of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction for Gaza.
This appointment comes in accordance with resolution 2720 adopted last week by the Security Council, said the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, Stéphane Dujarric, in a press release.
The coordinator will be responsible for “facilitating, coordinating, monitoring and verifying shipments of humanitarian relief to Gaza, as well as establishing a United Nations mechanism to accelerate the delivery of humanitarian relief to Gaza,” the spokesperson said.
Ms. Kaag, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of her country, has to her credit “rich” experience in political, humanitarian and development affairs, as well as in diplomacy, according to the same source.
In its new resolution adopted last Friday, the Security Council called for the “immediate and unhindered” delivery of humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.
In this text adopted by 13 votes in favor and two abstentions (United States and Russia), the members of the Council “reaffirmed the obligations of the parties to the conflict under international humanitarian law regarding the provision of humanitarian aid and demanded that these The latter enable and facilitate the immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of large-scale humanitarian assistance directly to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip.
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