The Mozambican Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Verónica Macamo, begins a working visit to New York on Monday (04), where she will take part in the high-level United Nations meeting on the Central Emergency Response Fund for 2024, an event led by UN Secretary General António Guterres.
“Invited as one of the main speakers at this meeting, which will take place on 6 December at UN headquarters, Minister Verónica Macamo will deliver her speech on the humanitarian situation in Mozambique,” says a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation sent to AIM.
In New York, Macamo will also reaffirm the Mozambican government’s commitment and resilience in response to the devastation caused by natural disasters generated by the global phenomenon of climate change, the document adds.
Since its creation in 2006, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has provided humanitarian aid to Mozambique totalling more than 122 million dollars, most recently donating 16 million dollars to help the victims of Cyclone Freddy and this year’s cholera outbreak.
Aside from this humanitarian event, Verónica Macamo’s agenda includes other meetings organised by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Mozambique to the United Nations.
CERF is one of the fastest funding instruments available to help people affected by crises.
Managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the fund enables timely, effective and life-saving humanitarian action by UN agencies and other organisations.
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