18 June, Yerevan – representatives from United Nations agencies, government and civil society organizations from Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan are taking part in a two-day workshop on rapid needs assessments in disaster response.

GA/11382

Sixty-seventh General Assembly
Plenary
86th Meeting (AM)

The General Assembly today adopted, by a recorded vote of 62 in favour to 16 against, with 84 abstentions, a resolution that recognized the right of return for all refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes in Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

On June 6, United State Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Bridget Brink, along with local government officials and regional medical professionals, visited the United States’ Embassy supported Hellenicare Hippocrates clinic and Mobile Medical Units (MMU). The MMU distribute valuable medical equipment and supplies to rural ambulatories allowing rural clinic doctors to better treat their patients living in rural areas with more limited access to care.

anketa#a#non00b#wed1c#7d#pol24ngo2 – sent from the village of Ditsi in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia, this mysterious SMS means that no security incidents have happened in the last week, there was one crossing of the boundary with South Ossetia for celebrating a wedding, the community sense of security is seven on a scale of one to 10, the police patrolled 24 times, and NGOs two times.

Text messages like this one are the basis of a simple community safety network, established by local residents over the past two years.

The Eurasian Food Security Network has just been launched with the first online consultation "Food Security issues in the Eurasian region: major challenges and G8/G20 initiatives in relation with the regional situation".

The Eurasian Food Security Network was set up for the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS) as a result of the collaboration between the ECFS, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).

Overview

Around 6.5 million people were newly displaced, almost twice as many as the 3.5 million during 2011. The conflicts in Syria and DRC were responsible for around half of the new displacements.

By Jennifer Brookland

Georgian authorities will resume responsibility for all disaster response packages in one year, according to a timeline agreed on by the U.S. State Department, Counterpart International and Georgia’s Emergency Management Department.

The pre-positioned packages, funded by the U.S. State Department and currently maintained by Counterpart, enable a quick and effective release of relief supplies in an emergency situation.

Summary:

On March 24th 2013, strong wind and storms affected the Eastern and Western parts of Georgia.