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UN fact-finding mission visited flood-affected areas in Ivano-Frankivsk region


 
  Floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  Floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  Consequences of floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  Ministry of Emergency evacuates people from the flood-affected region
  Floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  Floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  UN Resident Coordinator F. O'Donnell met with Ivano-Frankivsk Council Head I.Oliynyk
  UN experts during the meeting with the regional authorities
  Floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  Floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  Floods in Western Ukraine. August 2008.
  Reconstruction of the damaged settlements in Verhniy Yasyniv village
  UNICEF and UNDP experts meeting with flood victims
  Journalist interviewing flood victim
  This woman shop was totally destroyed and house damaged heavily by the disaster
  The Ukrainian army is helping people to repair their settlements
  Stocks of humanitarian aid to be shortly delivered to the flood victims
  The Ukrainian army soldiers are helping at the humanitarian warehouse
  Humanitarian aid distribution
  Press-conference on the UN mission results
  WHO experts assess the humanitarian situation
  In some places level of water risen that high
  Now unstable, uninhabitable; new house needed
  Relief convoy enroute

8 August 2008. Ivano-Frankivsk - Today the UN fact-finding mission led by Francis O'DONNELL, UN Resident Coordinator in Ukraine, has completed their two-day visit to Ivano-Frankivsk.

On 7-8 August 2008 the UN team including UNICEF Representative in Ukraine, WHO Representative and experts of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) had a chance to assess the current humanitarian situation and medium and long-term recovery needs. 

The UN delegation members held a number of meetings with the local authorities and the people affected by the recent floods in the villages of Verkhovyna, Yasyniv, Kryvorivnia Halych Kolomyja Kosiv and other settlements.

"We should turn the disaster situation into a development opportunity for the affected regions and promote rural areas", UN Resident Coordinator told journalists at a news-conference in Ivano-Frankivsk.

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Photos by UN DPI; WHO; Oleksandr Klymenko, newspaper "Holos Ukrainy"