UN to hold donors’ conference to raise funds for flood victims: PM

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has told Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that he plans to hold a donors’ conference either in New York or somewhere in Europe to raise funds for Pakistan’s flood victims. The prime minister disclosed this while talking to media at a Pakistan-sponsored exhibition of pictures from the flood-affected areas at the UN headquarters in New York. The prime minister said that while the date of the proposed donors’ conference had not yet been finalised, “it will be held soon”. On Aug 30, the United Nations and Pakistan appealed for $160 million in emergency funding for the flood victims but earlier this month, UN officials disclosed that so far they received only one-fourth of that amount.
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The donors’ conference would augment efforts to collect funds for the victims. The prime minister said he would convey the voice of the flood victims to the rest of the world when he addresses the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Sept 23.