SUVA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) has rea[sub][/sub]ffirmed its support for Fiji in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Winston, the Fijian government said
Thursday.
Detailed discussions will be held in the coming weeks on European assistance in Fiji's recovery and rebuilding phase, Fiji's department of information said.
The assurance was made by Pierre Amilhat, the European Commission's director for development coordination Asia, Central Asia, Middle EastGulf and Pacific, at
a meeting in Frankfurt, Germany with Fiji's Attorney-General and Minister for
Finance Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, the department said in a statement.
""The two men discussed the Post Disaster Needs Assessment Report on Cyclone Winston, which has been jointly prepared by the European Union, the World Bank,
the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank. The report is a comprehensive
assessment of the damage caused by Cyclone Winston and the needs of Fijians
living in the affected areas,"" the statement said.
Winston ravaged Fiji in February, claiming 44 lives and leaving a path of massive destruction.
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HOHHOT Cheap Wisconsin Badgers Jerseys , China, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- A three-day winter Nadam featuring an international skiing event kicked off on Saturday in
West Ujimqin Banner (county) of Xilin Gol League, a pastoral area of north
China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Local nomads and visitors will participate in a series of sports events, such as archery, horse racing Cheap West Virginia Mountaineers Jerseys , camel racing, Mongolian wrestling as well as an international skiing contest sponsored by Federation
International de Ski.
Nadam is a mass traditional Mongolian festival where people celebrate harvests and pray for good luck.
It is usually held throughout the pastoral areas in the summer or in the winter on the snow-covered grassland, and has a history of more than 700 years.
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GENEVA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria Jan Egeland said Thursday that some 1.1 million Syrians are expected to have
been provided with humanitarian aid and assistance by the end of next month.
""The aim is to reach an impressive 1.1 million people by the end of April including in those remaining hard-to-reach areas and Deir ez-Zor,"" he said
following a humanitarian taskforce meeting in Geneva's Palais des Nations.
To date Cheap Usc Trojans Jerseys , 258,845 people living in besieged and hard-to-reach areas have been provided with multi-sectoral humanitarian
assistance including food for at least one month since the start of the year.
Egeland indicated that four towns (Madaya, Al Zabadani, Foah and Kafraya) will receive their third aid convoy today, while permits have been obtained to
reach 15 new hard-to-reach areas including locations in Aleppo and Homs where
needs have been growing.
Despite progress made Cheap Ucla Bruins Jerseys , a number of locations in war-torn Syria have yet to receive life-saving assistance, including one third of the 18 besieged
areas the UN has been working with.
Among these locations are the symbolically important areas of Darayya and Douma.
While still more work needs to be done to gain access to these areas, difficulties in delivering medical aid has also compounded the humanitarian
situation on the ground.
""The issue of medical relief continues to be the single most difficult issue in humanitarian access work,"" the diplomat highlighted.
Surgical and trauma-care equipment is often removed from aid convoys and medical personnel have been denied access to locations in dire need of medical
assistance.
Vaccination rates have also reached concerning levels, with only 50 to 60 percent of the population vaccinated in some areas.
""From April 18 to April 24 we will vaccinate hopefully all of the children that have not been vaccinated in Syria. That would be part of a three-phase
vaccination campaign against a number of diseases that are now threatening to
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With the latest round of intra-Syrian talks underway, the issue of detainees was also raised by Egeland following Syrian opposition concerns on the lack of
progress made on this front.
""The issue was raised to the International Syria Support Group by the special envoy Staffan de Mistura. He said that it is an urgent humanitarian and
protection issue, and that we will reach out to members of the taskforce to have
them help us vis-a-vis the parties so we can have progress on the issue,"" he
explained.
""Nothing would be more important now than to get out some groups in particular, women Cheap South Carolina Gamecocks Jerseys , children, the sick and the wounded. We are hopeful we can make progress on that issue,"" he added.
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An intense battle between the incumbent mayor and a candidate nominated by Toru Hashimoto and his political group Osaka Ishin no Kai, a local group of the
national party Nippon Ishin no Kai, has emerged in Japan's oldest "autonomous"
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The official election campaign for Sakai City, southern Osaka Prefecture, with its population of about 850,000, started on Sunday. Two
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biggest in terms of population and area after Osaka City.
Interestingly, Takeyama was first supported by Hashimoto when elected mayor four years ago. He has since scrapped major public works projects and reduced
administrative costs for the city office, including the abolishment of the
mayor's retirement allowance of 28 million yen (about 280,000 U.S. dollars) and
cutting personnel costs by 3.1 percent to save 1.4 billion yen ( about 14
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