Showing posts with label World Humanitarian Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Humanitarian Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Statement by EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva on World Humanitarian Day 2014 (EC)

European Commission, Statement, Brussels, 19 August 2014:

"World Humanitarian Day is observed in memory of the victims of the attack on the United Nations' headquarters in Baghdad in 2003 which caused the deaths of 22 people, including the UN Special Representative in Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello.
Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, is in Iraq, where the European Commission is providing vital assistance to hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting. She has made the following statement:

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