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delegation. It would be helpful if means could be found to avoid mid-year target revisions and appeals. Maybe an answer can be found in the US delegation's suggestion for a new form of budgeting.
My Delegation will however turn in greater detail to these administrative matters under appropriate items of the agenda.
Finally, let me turn to inter-agency co-ordination. As the High Commissioner pointed out to the Summer Session of ECOSOC, the Secretary-General has asked him on severa occasions to co-ordinate relief to the victims of certain man-made that is to say, refugee-type
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We are all aware of the Secretary-General's authority to do this which was given to him by the General Assembly.
We are also grateful to the High Commissioner for the highly effective manner in which he has carried out these special tasks.
During the Summer Session of the ECOSOC, the United Kingdom Delegation encouraged UN agencies to make use of the co-ordinating machinery that exists in the United Nations Disaster Relief Office (UNDRO).
I notice in this connection that there is no reference to UNDRO in the section on co-ordination in the introduction to the document on assistance No 526. I am sure that the UNICR will not in fact overlook the valuable co-ordination machinery which exists in UNDRO eg its links with donors, both governmental and non-governmental and its data bank of information on the availability and location of relief supplies in disaster prone countries (liability to natural disasters is unfortunately no protection against those which are man-made).
Mr Chairman, I have spoken in some detail. While my words might occasionally have sounded critical, my criticism has, I hope, been constructive: Certainly that has been the intention. Moreover, these words should not be taken as in any way affecting the high value which, as I remarked at the beginning of my intervention, the United Kingdom places on the irreplaceable role of the High Commissioner and his staff.
I am also very glad to be able to end my remarks on a helpful note. I have just received news of Her Majesty's Government's response to the High Commissioner's appeal on Angola, and subject to Parliamentary approval the Government will contribute £250,000.
Thank you, Mr Chairman.
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