New York - Information Office - 14 November 2019

The State of Qatar has pledged USD 62.780 million in voluntary contributions to core resources of a number of United Nations (UN) agencies, departments and programs in 2020, emphasising that the State attaches the utmost importance to strengthening its partnership with the UN system in order to meet common global challenges.

This came in a statement made by HE Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Ambassador Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani at the United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities held at the UN headquarters in New York.

HE the Ambassador explained that contributions to core resources would be distributed to a range of UN offices, where USD 15 million would be allocated to the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, USD 10 million to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), USD 8 million to UNRWA, USD 8 million to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and USD 5 million will go to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Other contributions will also be allocated to UNICEF, which would be allocated USD 4 million, USD 1 million to the UN Office High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and USD 1 million to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), USD 1 million to the UN Trust Fund for Resident Coordinator system, USD 5 million to Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and USD 5 million to the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth.

Other voluntary contributions would amount to USD 5 million for the digitization of United Nations documents, as well as USD 250,000 to support the organization of the International Symposium on Youth Participation in Mediation Processes in December 2020 to be held in Doha to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Youth Peace and Security Agenda and USD 30,000 would be allocated to the UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Combat Contemporary Forms of Slavery.

Her Excellency stressed that the State of Qatar seeks to improve the ability of the UN to respond quickly and in a consistent manner to the millions of people in need in different parts of the world. She reiterated Qatar's keenness to support efforts to strengthen the UN's development system to improve its capacity and efficiency to better serve the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

HE the Ambassador pointed to Qatar's announcement in 2018 to provide the UN support on its core resources totaling USD 500 million, noting that Qatar has become among the list of the largest partners supporting the UN in various fields.