Thursday, February 28, 2008

Press conference on Central African Republic humanitarian situation

from ReliefWeb

Although many of its trials and tribulations were indigenous, with neighbours like Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic was in the heart of a very rough neighbourhood, Toby Lanzer, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic said today at Headquarters.

Updating correspondents on the humanitarian situation in that country, he said that, in the internal situation, the United Nations was playing a key role, among others through its Special Representative of the Secretary-General, to get the Government and factions together. Progress was being made towards an inclusive national dialogue in the summer.

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