UN General Assembly president due in Amman Tuesday

AMMAN — President of the UN General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft will visit the Kingdom on Tuesday, during which he will meet with several Jordanian officials and UN workers in Jordan.

Ulla Oestergaard, special media adviser and deputy spokesperson within the Office of the President of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly, said Lykketoft is to meet on Tuesday with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh and representatives of the UN in Jordan.

He is also scheduled to visit the Zaatari Refugee Camp for Syrian refugees on Wednesday. 

The main topics that will be addressed in Jordan pertain to the goals of sustainable development and the crisis of Syrian refugees, besides the UN report on humanitarian financing that will be launched in Dubai on Tuesday, she said, as quoted by the Jordan News Agency, Petra.

Jordan hosts around 1.3 million Syrians, more than 80 per cent of whom live in host communities outside the main Zaatari and Azraq camps, according to official figures.

According to government sources, funding the needs of Syrians and their host communities has not been proportional to response requirements. As of November 2015, roughly $1.07 billion was committed to the Jordan Response Plan 2015, which corresponded to 36 per cent of the funding requirements.