ေနထိုင္ခြင့္မရွိေသာ ေရြ႕ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သမား၃၄၆ဦးအား ဖမ္းဆီးျပီးျဖစ္ဟု ထိုင္းသတင္းစာေရးသား

ဇြန္ ၂၁။ ေခါင္စြတ္သတင္းစာ

ဘာသာျပန္(ကိုတီ ရခိုင့္တံခြန္ဂ်ာနယ္)

ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ဇြန္ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔မွစ၍ ၁၉ရက္ေန႔ အထိ တရားမ၀င္ေနထိုင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကိုင္ေနသည့္ ျမန္မာ ၊ ေလာႏွင့္ ကေမၻာဒီးယား အလုပ္သမားစုစုေပါင္း ၃၄၆ဦး ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ထိုင္းဗဟိုရဲဌာနခ်ဳပ္က ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ စထန္စရန္ႏုန္ႏွင့္ ဒုဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ ဥဖုန္ကိုမာကုန္ တို႔က ထုတ္ျပန္ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

နယ္ေျမ (၁)မွ နယ္ေျမ(၉)အတြင္း ဖမ္းဆီခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ျပီး အဓိက ဖမ္းဆီးရမိသည့္ ေနရာမ်ားမွာ၊ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရး စားေသာက္ဆိုင္ယမကာ၊ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖေရးႏွင့္ ေဘာလံုးေလာင္းကစား လုပ္ေနစဥ္ ဖမ္းဆီခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ယခု ဖမ္းဆီးမိသူမ်ားထဲတြင္ အမ်ားစုမွာ ျမန္မာမ်ားျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ေရရွည္တြင္ ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံ အတြင္း ေအးခ်မ္း သာယာေရးႏွင့္ လံုျခံဳေရးကိုပါ ထိခိုက္လာႏိုင္ဖြယ္ရွိသည္။ လုယက္မႈမ်ားပါ ေပၚေပါက္ လာနိုင္သျဖင့္ အထူး သတိထားရမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ထိုင္းဘာသာျဖင့္ ေရးသားထုတ္ေ၀သည့္ ေခါင္စြတ္ သတင္းစာတြင္ ေရးသား ေဖၚျပထားသည္။

Office of the UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar

Press release

 Office of the UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar

UN responds to severe landslides in Northern Rakhine State
The UN has extended its support to people affected by landslides in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State. An estimated 77,000 people could be affected to various degrees, early assessments show.
Continued rains over a period of four days in the Northern Rakhine State (NRS) of Myanmar have caused severe flooding in several areas of Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. To date, the state media reports a death toll of 56 people, mainly due to landslides. The destruction of essential bridges has made logistics and physical access to certain parts of Maungdaw township, in particular, extremely difficult.
For the last two days, several inter-agency assessment teams have been deployed to various locations. Although some remote areas have not yet been reached, it is estimated at this stage that up to 15,000 families (a total population of up to 77,000) could be affected, to various degrees. Water levels have started to recede in all areas visited so far, and some families have started to return to their villages. Others remain displaced.
Humanitarian relief assistance is being provided by the Government, the UN and other humanitarian partners. Various support and relief items such as food and medical items, which are in stock locally, are being distributed to the affected populations. Various UN agencies present in Northern Rakhine State are mobilizing emergency grants for the immediate relief efforts or mobilizing emergency supplies in-country.
Among the items identified as urgently needed and now being delivered are food, medicine and non-food items such as mosquito nets, tarpaulin sheets, blankets, clothes, hygiene kits, ORS solutions, family kits, plastic containers, and water purification tablets.
As roads remain impracticable to deliver supplies from Yangon, a boat loaded with emergency relief supplies will further supplement efforts. The boat, carrying the equivalent of four truck loads of essential items, will leave Yangon over the weekend.
More assistance would be needed to support the recovery efforts, including livelihoods, shelter, medical support, and infrastructure.

For more information, please contact:
The United Nations in Myanmar
Esben Q. Harboe Special Assistant to the UN RC/HC
Tel: +95 9 5074853, esben.harboe@undp.org

Tripartite Core Group to hand-over Recovery Efforts to Government of Myanmar

Press Release

Tripartite Core Group to hand-over Recovery Efforts to Government of Myanmar

Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 18 June 2010
The Third Recovery Forum was held today with the participation of several Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Director-Generals and senior officials from the Government of the Union of Myanmar, representatives from ASEAN, UN Agencies, diplomatic community, INGOs, NGOs and the private sector. The Forum took stock of programmes in recovery and reviewed what needs to be done after the TCG mandate ends in July 2010.
The Forum confirmed that the Myanmar Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement will continue the coordination of the Post-Nargis Recovery Programme after the Tripartite Core Group’s mandate ends in July this year.
“While the TCG mandate will come to an end, the recovery activities will continue as outlined under the Post-Nargis Recovery and Preparedness Plan (PONREPP). The TCG will mainstream its role and hand back its responsibilities to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, as well as the knowledge and lessons learned from the post-Nargis experience, to facilitate the Ministry in its effort to promote disaster management initiatives in Myanmar,” said U Kyaw Thu, Chairman of the Civil Service Selection and Training Board and Chairman of the TCG.

The Recovery Forum also reviewed the recovery efforts on Education, Environment, Disaster Risk Reduction, Health, Livelihoods, Protection, Shelters, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and highlighted that critical needs remain in Disaster Risk Reduction, Livelihoods, and Shelters due to the lack of resources. Over 140,000 families in 11 townships in Nargis-affected areas still require shelter assistance. Meanwhile, only 34% of funding for livelihoods proposed in the PONREPP was funded.

“Through the TCG, ASEAN is working its best to ensure a smooth handover of the recovery coordination and programme for the cyclone-affected population. As part of its commitment to the Government of Myanmar in the post-Nargis operation, ASEAN is committed to supporting the Government of Myanmar in the institutionalization and promotion of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response in the country,” said H.E. Chu Cong Phung, Ambassador of Vietnam to Myanmar and senior ASEAN member of the TCG.
“We have collectively demonstrated that the delivery of large scale humanitarian assistance in an efficient, accountable manners is possible” I appeal everyone to work together for the benefit of the people of the Delta and beyond” said Bishow Parajuli, UN Resident / Humanitarian Coordinator also UN representative to the TCG.
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MEDIA CONTACT DETAILS

ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force
Coordinating Office
Mai Phuong Tang
Communications Officer
Tel: +951 225 258
mai.aseanhtf@gmail.com

The United Nations in Myanmar
Esben Q. Harboe
Special Assistant to the RC
Tel: +951 095074853
esben.harboe@undp.org