ICP
Asks UN's Ging
of Airstrikes
on Yemen,
Niger IDPs,
Nepal Delays
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 5 -- When
UN aid
official John
Ging held a
press
conference at
the UN in New
York about his
recent visits
to Chad and
Niger, Inner
City Press
asked him
about
displacement
in Niger - and
also the
airstrikes on
Yemen, and
delays in aid
to Nepal. Video here.
Ging called
what's
occurring in
Yemen
"inhumane;" he
praised aid
worker in
Niger doing
much with
little.
Diplomatically,
he
acknowledged
bureaucratic
hurdles in
Nepal after
the
earthquake,
saying that
outgoing OCHA
chief Valerie
Amos raised
the issue
there.
And what of
Amos' incoming
replacement,
Stephen
O'Brien also
of the UK?
We'll have
more on that.
Ging said it
was NOT an
OCHA study,
and referred
Inner City
Press to a
response made
earlier in the
day in Geneva
by David
Nabarro. On
the
non-numeric
point that the
UN system was
slow to
respond, Ging
to his credit
agreed, adding
that MSF was
beating the
drum but the
UN was slow.
Inner City
Press for the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
thanked Ging
for his
candor, and
for doing
Q&A
briefing after
his trips,
which other
officials -
notably Herve
Ladsous -
do not do.
Inner City
Press also
asked Ging
about the
IMF's action
announced in
the morning;
Ging said it
was what the
leaders of the
three most
impacted
countries
asked
for,
they should be
supported.
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