HC Deb 14 April 1994 vol 241 c265W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 24 February,Official Report, column 307, what action has been taken by the United Nations Development Programme and other United Nations agencies to ensure that there is funding to ensure the security of the heavy weapons being handed over by militias in Somaliland and to provide for the civilian rehabilitation of the disarmed militias.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The proposal prepared by the National Demobilization Committee—NDC—in northwest Somalia, with assistance from the UNDP/OPS contracted team of Zimbabweans—ZIMDAT—has now been refined and will be presented to donors at a briefing and discussion session in Nairobi on 22 April 1994. An appeal for funds will follow the briefing.

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