Abuja – The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed its willingness to partner with the Federal Government and civil society groups in offering assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-East.
Mr Volker Turk, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection in the UNHCR, Geneva, said this after his meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, on Friday, in Abuja.
Briefing the State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Turk said that the purpose of the meeting was to find how the UN agencies could provide support to national institutions handling the affairs of the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.
“I was very pleased, very honoured, to meet with the vice president and we had a discussion about the very complex situation in the North East.
“And how UNHCR and the other organisations of the United Nations can continue to provide support to the national institutions, to the people that are directly affected by it as well as to the civil society that is encumbered by the situation; and how we can work together to find a solution.’’
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The UN chief said that the agency was looking forward to partnering the Federal Government to provide succour to the IDPs.
According to him,“The vice president is obviously fully aware of the situation and also of our offer of support and we look very much forward to collaborating together’’. (NAN)