181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

We are trying now to move from saving lives in daily food distribution to doing agricultural work: livestock, water and irrigation recovery projects.

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,

We have not reached agreement with the government on the text (of an appeal), we have not agreed on how many are affected, how to help them, the role of (non-governmental organizations) NGOs and other operational aspects.

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

We are humanitarian workers, we are apolitical, impartial. We hope to be successful in our dialogue (with Pyongyang) so we can have a phased end to the program.

We are humanitarians, we don't know how to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in the Himalayas. But the most efficient military alliance in the world should be able to.

We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped.

We still are not reaching all below the snow line.

We're doing too little combined as an international community because it's too vast. We have 140,000 tents now in the area. Normally, that is more than enough for even large-scale emergencies. This is probably only one-fourth of what is needed.