New York - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has confirmed that it has been moving forward in meeting global humanitarian appeals and participating alongside the United Nations to support the efforts of the Organization and the countries of the world at large to confront many challenges, whether at the level of natural disasters, or combating poverty and hunger in the world through the Food Program Global or other programs aimed at preventing the spread of famine and drought in the affected countries to save the lives of millions of people and children.

This came in the speech of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during the high-level meeting held yesterday at the United Nations on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund, which was delivered by a member of the permanent delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations and chairperson of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural). Sulafa Musa.

Moussa indicated that, by way of example and not limited to, the Kingdom provided generous support to the World Health Organization to combat and respond to the Corona virus (Covid-19), and it also supported several countries directly to confront this pandemic through the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Action by providing vaccines and equipment. The necessary medical staff.

She said: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to support humanitarian work and has never stood idly by about the different crises that the countries of the world are going through, some of them arising from wars and conflicts and some due to factors of nature, time and place, and one of the first funds to which the Kingdom generously contributed the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) ) The most recent of which is the generous support of the Fund from the Kingdom in April of this year.

At the end of the speech, Sulaf Moussa stressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's continued cooperation, coordination and support for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, expressing her thanks to the United Nations Agency for Humanitarian Affairs for organizing this event.