In Sierra Leone, humanitarian aid.

And humanitarian aid needs remain considerable.

As the recent attacks on humanitarian aid workers in Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda illustrate, the provision of humanitarian relief often puts the safety of humanitarian aid workers at risk.

Together with Israel's rapid deployment of humanitarian aid, all those sources of technology supported aid efforts.

An immediate investigation into the misappropriation of humanitarian aid was required.

They depend most on humanitarian aid from domestic and international organizations.

Humanitarian aid workers were harassed and assaulted frequently during banditry incidents.

In 2004, we provided bilateral humanitarian aid to Morocco and Mali.

Humanitarian aid agencies continue to experience harassment by some Government authorities, especially in Kalma camp, where some Humanitarian Aid Commission representatives actively tried to limit contact between non governmental organizations and internally displaced persons.

We must find ways to ensure more effective protection for humanitarian aid workers.

Proposals regarding the adjustment of international humanitarian aid capacities are currently under discussion.

Russia has become a more active donor country in providing emergency humanitarian aid.

The security situation in Darfur continues to restrict the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Humanitarian aid agencies and aid workers are doing excellent work in many areas, but these problems are beyond the power of humanitarians to resolve.

We commend the humanitarian personnel who are engaged in humanitarian aid work and protection activities there in spite of the adverse security conditions.

This has had a pronounced effect on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the area.

During 2004, the Government of Mexico sent emergency humanitarian aid to Haiti on four occasions.

We put people on humanitarian aid and we boast about it because we've spent three billion.

Humanitarian aid cannot be an alibi for an unwillingness to address the root causes of conflict.

For our part, Japan has provided humanitarian assistance in the form of blankets and food aid.

It is noteworthy that Africa received around 7 billion in humanitarian aid between 1995 and 2001.

New joint guidelines on the movement of humanitarian personnel throughout the Sudan have contributed to easing humanitarian access to southern Sudan, although security issues continue to hinder the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Finally, as children are a particularly vulnerable group in humanitarian crises, they have been a priority of the European Union's humanitarian aid policy for several years.

Kuwait deems it imperative that humanitarian assistance be provided to those States stricken by the tsunami and stresses the importance of coordinating humanitarian aid and economic assistance.

The challenge now is to redesign Georgia s aid package to focus primarily on the provision of reconstruction aid that promotes investment and employment. While humanitarian aid cannot be neglected, it should be recognized that such aid promotes consumption rather than investment, creating price distortions and work disincentives.

This year again, there have been a number of attacks on civilians, including United Nations humanitarian aid workers.

As Mr. Egeland said, humanitarian aid cannot be an alibi for unwillingness to address the root causes of conflict.

Meanwhile, emergency programmes, namely humanitarian aid, have been and continue to be funded by the international partners of Burundi.

Any sanctions regime must include specific and appropriate measures to ensure that the affected population received the necessary humanitarian aid.

We must make sure that immediate humanitarian aid can reach all the affected communities, many of which now are displaced.

(j) Ensure that humanitarian assistance, including food aid, reaches the target groups, with unimpeded access and transparent monitoring and accountability

11. Condemns all interference in the delivery of humanitarian relief supplies, and demands the secure and uninterrupted supply of humanitarian aid to all in need of it, especially in the Panjshir valley

(e) Calls upon all Somali local authorities to provide full protection and support for international humanitarian aid personnel operating in Somalia

Expanded outreach by around 12,500 aid workers has averted a humanitarian catastrophe, with no major outbreaks of disease or famine reported.

UNICEF has recently received funding from the Humanitarian Aid Office of the European Commission (ECHO) for a subregional child protection project.

Women who go to get firewood in order to heat the humanitarian aid in order to feed their families humanitarian aid, the dirty secret of it is it has to be heated, really, to be edible are themselves subjected to rape, which is a tool of the genocide that is being used.

The Security Council strongly urges the TFIs to ensure humanitarian access and provide guarantees for the safety and security of aid workers.

Emergency Humanitarian Aid (Iran) installing toilets and showers in Zone 10 of Bam city under the coordination by UNICEF after the earthquake.

Financial resources are critical to addressing humanitarian needs, but effective response requires experienced humanitarian personnel on the ground making tough decisions, coordinating numerous actors and ensuring that the aid reaches persons most in need.

Some aid is utilized for humanitarian purposes, that is, to relieve suffering in cases in which the recipient Governments lack the needed resources.

Calls on Eritrea to lift all restrictions imposed on the operations of aid organizations, to enable them to carry out their humanitarian activities,

(d) For the supply of protective clothing (such as flak jackets) for use by United Nations personnel, media representatives and humanitarian aid workers

Mr. Idohou (Benin) (spoke in French) I would like at the outset to pay tribute to the humanitarian aid workers for their inestimable efforts to halt the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and elsewhere in Africa.

In Khartoum, despite serious humanitarian needs for internally displaced persons and the poor, there has been no increase in aid disbursements and therefore no increase in the provision of humanitarian assistance during the reporting period.

Several members of humanitarian agencies whom I met indicated that this period should still be seen as the phase of humanitarian assistance and that there is a continuing need for food aid to help the population.