“A decision to sponsor the UNICEF project ‘Reduction of Child Morbidity and Mortality through Preventive and Curative Health Intervention in DPR Korea’” was reportedly handed to DPRK Ambassador-at-Large Ri Hung Sik by Russian Ambassador Alexander Matsegora.
The text of the decree, according to Russia’s TASS news agency, stated that it is to ensure Moscow’s “participation in international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance” to North Korea through UNICEF – to the tune of $4,795,122 USD.
This brings the total of indirect Russian donations through UN organizations in 2019 to just over $9.7 million, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Financial Tracking Service (FTS) website.
Even with the latest donation, however, only around 30% has been raised of the UN’s goal of $120 million for the “DPR Korea Needs and Priorities 2019,” to address what it deems to be humanitarian shortfalls in nutrition, healthcare, disaster prevention, etc.
These totals do not include direct food or other resource assistance to North Korea, such as Russia’s repeated shipments of thousands of tons of wheat this year facilitated by the WFP.
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