  {"id":209733,"date":"2014-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209733"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:49:00","slug":"auto-insert-209733","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209733\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Development Group affirms support for Arab region &#8211; UNDP press release (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;color:#0041c2;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Âé¶¹APP Development Group affirms support for Arab Region at a &#8220;turning point&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Amman, 14 October &#8211; Today the regional leadership of the Âé¶¹APP Development Group met in Amman and confirmed its support for the Arab States, Middle East and North Africa region at the critical juncture it faces.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8220;We meet today at a turning point, between progress and crisis, between development and regression, between a brighter future and a darkness that is terrible to contemplate,&#8221; said Sima Bahous, Chair of the Regional Âé¶¹APP Development Group. &#8220;We come together today to ensure that this turning point we face, is a turning point for the better.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Âé¶¹APP Development Group is the body that coordinates and guides the development work of all development agencies funds and programmes of the Âé¶¹APP System. For the last three years the UNDG has increasingly upgraded its support for the Arab States, Middle East and North Africa region, with a special focus on countries that are pursuing courses of change or are seeking to cope with or recover from crisis.<br \/>\n\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Delegates also discussed the outcome of the Gaza Reconstruction Conference held in Cairo on 12 October, and outlined Âé¶¹APP Development Group plans to support a rapid recovery for Gaza. Donors pledged US$5.4 billion to support the effort, while also noting that political commitment on all sides will be every bit as necessary as financial support.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8220;The people of Gaza deserve to live in dignity,&#8221; said Ms. Bahous. &#8220;It is a responsibility we all share.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Contact Information<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>In Cairo:<\/strong>&nbsp;Noeman AlSayyad noeman.alSayyad@undp.org<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>In New York:<\/strong>&nbsp;Theodore Murphy theodore.murphy@undp.org<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹APP Development Group affirms support for Arab Region at a &#8220;turning point&#8221; Amman, 14 October &#8211; Today the regional leadership of the Âé¶¹APP Development Group met in Amman and confirmed its support for the Arab States, Middle East and North Africa region at the critical juncture it faces. &#8220;We meet today at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209733\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2325],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,1937,2005,5200,2349,3589,2465],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-209733","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-development-programme-undp","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-population","document-subject-poverty","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=209733"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=209733"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=209733"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=209733"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=209733"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=209733"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=209733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}