We have reason to fear that 2006 could be as bad as 2005.

This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse,

I think it's a matter of weeks or months that we will have a collapse in many of our operations. As I told the Security Council today, I don't think the world has understood how bad it has become of late.

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.

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.