This report covers the period from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2011.

Programme summary

Brussels, 24 February 2011

The European Commission has today proposed to allocate €7.46 million to Slovenia and €1.17 million to Croatia from the EU Solidarity Fund, following the devastation caused by floods in September 2010. The money from the Solidarity Fund is aimed to finance emergency measures such as relief operations, cleaning up the affected areas and repair of basic infrastructure, made by national, regional and local authorities.

European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, responsible for the EU Solidarity Fund, said: "With

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REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS

1. PEACE BRINGS NEW CHALLENGES IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ANGOLA

The current peace process in Angola is bringing about immense change in a country that has experienced nearly thirty years of civil war and destruction, writes JRS Angola. The new political landscape has given hope to the millions of displaced people and refugees that they may be able to return to their areas of origin, and already thousands

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U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Office of Humanitarian Demining Programs
July 9, 2002

FACT SHEET

Humanitarian Mine Action: The Landmine Threat and the Response to It

(Photo of Seal that reads: So That Others May Walk the Earth in Safety, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Program)

There are more than 100 landmine and/or

"Vesti" reported on 8 February that, whatever new political arrangement Serbia and Montenegro work out between themselves, any new association is unlikely to be called Yugoslavia. Belgrade reportedly favors calling it the Federation of Serbia and Montenegro, while the term Union of Serbia and Montenegro is apparently preferred in Podgorica. Whichever term takes root, it will replace one that has long ceased to have any real meaning.

A/56/632
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 20 (b)
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance: special economic assistance to individual countries or regions

I. Introduction

BELGRADE, June 25 (AFP) - Ten years after former Yugoslavia began disintegrating with a series of bloody wars, Belgrade is organising an international conference on the inviolability of borders in the Balkans in a bid to prevent new conflicts.

The initiative is aimed at "reaffirming the principles of the inviolability of the borders in the Balkans, the territorial integrity and protection of minorities," President Vojislav Kostunica said recently.

"It is necessary to apply the 1975