Jan Egeland Disaster Quotations

This is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever measured in the amount of homes destroyed, people affected, people displaced,

We, as internationals, deal with mass natural disasters around the globe a number of times a year, so we have well-tested systems which have now been appreciated by many of these U.S. agencies.

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.

We're in a bad year. There have been more international disasters than usual. All the wars are continuing. The Pakistan situation will have an effect elsewhere.

The number one priority is to get to those who have nothing. If we don't, we will become a disaster within a disaster.

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

If we don't work together we will become a disaster within a disaster.

The United Nations stands ready to help with any kind of disaster expertise that might be required ... in full recognition that the United States is the country in the world that possesses the greatest civilian and military search and rescue and recovery assets themselves,