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EU Presidency Statement on Humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe

Sommaire: EU Presidency Statement on Humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe (19 December 2005: Brussels)

The Presidency on behalf of the European Union welcomes the 3-7 December visit to Zimbabwe by Jan Egeland, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. We echo Mr Egeland's concern that the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is extremely serious and getting worse, with many Zimbabweans suffering from food insecurity and/or the HIV/AIDs pandemic, and with thousands still homeless six months after Operation Murambatsvina and four months after Operation Garikai, which has proven to be ineffective.

We welcome the agreements signed by UN agencies and the Government of Zimbabwe for food assistance and HIV/AIDs programmes, and note the exchanges between the Government of Zimbabwe and the UN over the need for assistance with shelter.

We join with Mr Egeland in calling on the Government of Zimbabwe to build on this and allow the UN and other international donors unrestricted access to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance to those in need. We encourage African institutions and states to support this appeal to the Government of Zimbabwe.

We underline that the EU will continue itself to provide humanitarian assistance to Zimbabweans.

The Acceding Countries Bulgaria and Romania, the Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, , Serbia and Montenegro, EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova align themselves with this declaration.


* Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.

  • Ref: CL05-340EN
  • Source UE: Conseil
  • UN forum: 
  • Date: 19/12/2005


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