Traduction de «Secours aux réfugiés » (Français → Anglais) :

G. whereas some 400 000 Palestinian refugees have been affected inside Syria; whereas the Palestinians have largely remained neutral in the conflict; whereas almost 50 000 Palestinians are registered by UNWRA in Lebanon and almost 5 000 in Jordan; whereas Jordan has closed its border to the Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Syria, and whereas they are to a great extent prevented from working in Lebanon; whereas the Palestinian refugees – a vulnerable and disproportionately poor community even before the war – are entirely reliant on UNWRA as the sole provider not only of education, health and relief services, but also of food, cas ...[+++]h distribution and medical aid;

7. Notes that the priority is to create propitious conditions in countries of origin, thereby removing the reasons to leave; calls, as regards support and related procedures, for a structured and well-organised reception system to be set up; calls, therefore, for NGOs to be involved not just in reception and first aid, but in guidance to refugees, their safe return, their reintegration into local populations, and in drawing up innovative projects for their resettlement, under the common asylum policy and the Agenda for Protection;

We call on the Indonesian Government to respect international military law and to allow humanitarian organisations access to the area so that they can provide assistance to the refugees, displaced persons and prisoners.

humanitarian and emergency assistance including assistance to refugees and displaced persons, interventions linking short-term relief and rehabilitation with long-term development in crisis or post-crisis situations, and disaster preparedness’.

The honourable Member is informed that at the end of 2000, the Commission committed EUR 9 million in aid to uprooted people in Iran and Pakistan and that it is currently preparing a commitment to finance relief operations for refugees in Pakistan which will focus on the provision of drinking water and sanitation.

By letter of 8 May 2002 the Council consulted Parliament, pursuant to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Convention between the European Community and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) concerning aid to refugees in the countries in the Near East for 2002-2005 (COM(2002) 238 – 2002/0104(CNS)).