Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas
David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I will finish on this point because many of the questions have been asked by my colleagues. Other parts of the world also cause us concern. I am not sure if any of our guests want to comment on these countries or if they could give us an update on what is happening in them. Yemen is one. We were also told last week that 630,000 refugees were living in one place, in a refugee camp near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. There are so many other parts of the world similarly affected. We were told last week that 524 armed groups are in action in different parts of the world. I ask if the witnesses might comment on what is happening in Yemen and Bangladesh. We know about what is happening in Myanmar as well. These are areas I am quite interested in hearing about, if the witnesses could please comment on them.
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