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Article: PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS RESIDENT, HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR IN SOMALIA

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September 24, 2009
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 -- The United Nations issued the following press release:

Failing to respond to Somalia's increased need would result in a "future of miserable destitution" and could tip the region into a far greater level of crisis, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Somalia said today.

At a Headquarters press conference, Mark Bowden drew attention to the increasing and acute scale of the crisis, saying that Somalia was a priority case and that the implications of not responding carried the potential to destabilize the region through the movement of Somalia's population out of the country.

Mr. Bowden said that in the past 18 months, the scale of the crisis ...

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