A/RES/58/24
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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 1
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Welcomes the coordinated and collaborative efforts of the Government of
Ethiopia, agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, the donor
community, non-governmental organizations and other entities to avert, through
their timely and generous response, a major humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia in 2003;
Calls upon the international community to respond in a timely manner to
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the joint 2004 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for
emergency assistance for Ethiopia, covering food and non-food needs, as well as to
the urgent needs of programme interventions for 2004, aimed at addressing the
underlying causes of food insecurity, and issues of recovery, asset protection and the
sustainable development of the affected areas;
Welcomes the programme prepared by the Coalition for Food Security in
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Ethiopia, and encourages the international community to support the Coalition in
realizing its main objective, namely, breaking the cycle of food aid dependency
within the next three to five years, thereby enabling fifteen million vulnerable
people to engage in sustainable productive activities;
Also welcomes the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia, the
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international community and civil society, including non-governmental
organizations, to strengthen mechanisms already in place to respond to such
emergency situations, and appreciates their endeavours to increase the availability
of food through domestic production and to ensure the access of households in need
to food, health and water facilities;
Further welcomes the initiative taken by the Secretary-General in
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appointing a Special Envoy for the Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa, with
the objective of mobilizing resources for relief support as well as the sustainable
development of the affected areas;
Invites the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the
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Secretariat to continue considering ways to enhance the mobilization of emergency
relief assistance to cover the remaining humanitarian needs in Ethiopia;
Calls upon all development partners to integrate relief efforts with
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recovery, asset protection and long-term development and to address the underlying
structural causes of recurrent drought in Ethiopia in a way that is, inter alia, in line
with the poverty reduction strategy paper, including strategies that are aimed at
preventing such crises in the future and that improve the resilience of the
population;
Encourages the Government of Ethiopia to further strengthen its efforts
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to address the underlying structural causes of recurrent threats of drought as part of
its overall economic development programme;
10. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.
69th plenary meeting
5 December 2003
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