Qatar renews commitment to continue providing support to UNHCR activities – The Peninsula

Qatar renews commitment to continue providing support to UNHCR activities – The Peninsula

Geneva: Qatar has renewed its commitment to continue providing the necessary support to the activities and programs of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in order to enhance its capabilities to overcome the challenges and difficulties facing its operations in various parts of the world, to alleviate the suffering of refugees and to improve their living conditions.

This came in Qatar's statement delivered by Deputy Permanent Representative of Qatar in Geneva Jawhara Abdulaziz Al Suwaidi during "The 2022 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, which focuses on the theme of development cooperation and "preparing an enabling policy environment for solutions".

The responsibility to protect refugees and internally displaced persons and to achieve durable solutions for them is primarily the responsibility of states whose full and effective cooperation, action and political determination are indispensable to enable the international community to perform its humanitarian tasks, she stressed.

The UNHCR's global appeal for 2023 said that more than 100 million people around the world were forced to flee, the highest levels of displacement recorded, she said, welcoming the efforts made by countries to take into account international and regional rules and standards in their domestic laws and national development plans, with the aim of