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DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN AT HURRICANE
Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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The following statement was issued today by the Chairman of the
Special Committee on decolonization, Tesfaye Tadesse
(Ethiopia):
On behalf of the Special Committee and on my own behalf, I wish
to express our deep concern at the extensive damage caused by
hurricane Hugo to some of the Non-Self-Governing Territories and
other countries in the Caribbean region earlier this week,
resulting in the loss of life, widespread damage and
destruction.
In that connection, I wish to note a series of measures being
undertaken by the administering Powers, namely, the United
Kingdom and the United States, to extend emergency assistance to
the peoples of the Territories who have been severely affected
by the hurricane. I wish to point out in that regard that some
Member States of the United Nations and regional organizations,
as well as the United Nations Development Programme and the
United Nations Disaster Relief Organization, are also responding
to requests for emergency assistance from those Territories'
administrations.
In expressing our deep sympathy to the peoples of the region, I
would like, on behalf of the Special Committee, to urge the
continuation of, and an increase in, those efforts and to
address an urgent appeal to other States Members of the United
Nations to extend to the peoples of the region, both bilaterally
and on a multilateral basis, maximum possible assistance in
support of national rehabilitation and reconstruction of those
Territories and countries.
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