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Ambassador to Turkey attends World Humanitarian Summit
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Ambassador of Mongolia to Turkey participated in the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit held on May 23-24 in Istanbul, Turkey. He met with some officials to proceed Mongolian proposals for further reflection in a document released from the Summit.
In the opening speech at the summit, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated that there are about 60 million people displaced every year and 125 million people in need of humanitarian assistance across the globe, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed readiness to render all necessary support to three million Syrian and Iraqi refugees hosted in Turkey, and called on other states to take actions on humanitarian affairs.
The first day of the summit was addressed by world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Kuwaiti Emir al-Jaber al-Sabah; Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev; Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko; Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili; South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn; and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. They pledged to boost their efforts to tackle the world’s humanitarian crisis.
The World Humanitarian Summit, organized by the UN, the first of its’ kind, brought together representatives from 125 UN’s member states that mainly focused on these five cores: 1) raising political leadership to prevent and end conflicts; 2) upholding the norms that safeguard humanity; 3) leaving no one behind; 4) changing people’s lives – from delivering aid to ending the need; and 5) investing in humanity.
