U.N. chief warns of humanitarian disaster as Libya meeting opens
The United Nations chief opened an international meeting on Libya Wednesday with a grim assessment of the humanitarian fallout from the conflict.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Arab and African diplomats and their NATO counterparts that in a worst-case scenario, as many as 3.6 million strife-affected people could eventually require help. And the money to provide that help is slow in coming, he said.
So far the United Nations has seen only 39 percent of the $310 million it requested in emergency funding, “clearly insufficient given the prospective need,” Ban said.