ICP
Asks UNHCR
Guterres of No
World Bank
Grants for
Lebanon
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 26 --
“It is absurd
that Lebanon
has no access
to World Bank
grants because
it is
considered a
middle-income
country,” UN
High
Commissioner
for Refugees
Antonio
Guterres'
prepared
remarks to the
UN Security
Council on
Syria on
February 26
said.
When he
delivered the
remarks, he
added in
Jordan. So
Inner City
Press, when
Guterres came
to the
Security
Council
stakeout after
the meeting,
asked him
about this
addition, and
if he -- and
UN Deputy
Emergency
Relief
Coordinator
Kyung-wha Kang
beside him --
would be
pushing for a
change at the
World Bank,
which is
official a
part of the UN
“family.”
Guterres
replied that
development
assistance
should taken
into account
this new
world, where
Lebanon and
Jordan but
also Chad,
Niger and
Cameroon with
respect to
Nigeria, and
Ethiopia and
Kenya with
respect to
Somalia, are
the “first
line of
defense for
global
collective
security.” Video here.
Lebanon's
Ambassador to
the UN Nawaf
Salam told
Inner City
Press, "This
is unfortunate
indeed," here.
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