81. It was held to improve coordination worldwide on humanitarian relief efforts. 82. It stressed that traditional responses to the crisis, such as providing humanitarian relief for the displaced, are proving increasingly inadequate. 83. It will be used for humanitarian relief, media-related activities, administration, diplomacy and conferences. 84. It is designed to bolster the U.N. Protection Force in Bosnia to deliver humanitarian relief and monitor cease-fires. 85. It is estimated that thousands have been abducted into slavery amid the bombing of churches, hospitals and other humanitarian reliefs stations. 86. Joshi said the system of ferrying humanitarian relief by barge from the river port of Termez to the Afghanistan side was time-consuming and complicated. 87. Meantime, U.S. troops headed for southern Africa to help coordinate a humanitarian relief mission. 88. Moreover, he said, the Zairian rebels were preoccupied with their own struggle against Mobutu rather than the humanitarian relief effort. 89. Nations providing peacekeepers in Bosnia are looking at ways to shore up the beleaguered United Nations humanitarian relief mission in the war-ravaged republic. 90. Most charitable contributions go to humanitarian relief rather than the longer term development which might avert catastrophes, it said. |