Jan Egeland Good Quotations

The good news is that we have very good pledges. The bad news is that we still have too few concrete commitments to the U.N. flash appeal.

The good news is that we have very good pledges, but the bad news for us is that too little is committed to the UN's flash appeal.

This is a good start but it is not enough. We need more money from more nations,

It's no good saving people today just to see them killed tomorrow. They need help to escape the vicious cycle they find themselves in.

It is the first, crude way to get food there. It is not, however, a good way to get water and medicine distributed.

I have received assurances from the government that this will never be repeated and that the government has taken a number of actions to prevent such an event in future. This is good new for us, because we don't want to leave Cote d'Ivoire - we want to stay and continue our effective actions for all the Ivorian people.