I wanted to also ask you about--as we've heard this morning--the asserted policy of the Pakistani Government to support a quote 'voluntary, safe, and dignified returns.'
We do have to demonstrate leadership on these critical issues.
We need to be prepared to expect the same level of need over those next 12 months.
Only 42 percent of that appeal has been pledged, to date, by the international community overall.
This money will be used to promote return, to promote a recovery in areas to which people are going.
Let me say I am really pleased that we are having this hearing today.
I just appreciate your answer, and I understand your advocacy for greater financial engagement, and I am an advocate of that myself.
in 30 years, the percent of the Earth's surface that was the subject of drought had doubled.
drought means starvation, and starvation means darkness and death.
Our challenge now is to work with China to turn this commitment into effective implementation of the various Security Council resolutions.
the North Koreans, recently announced that they've suspended the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean war.