Posted September 01, 2011 05:10
· last edited March 18, 2021 08:08
News that
Libya
is about to receive $1.8 billion in cash as the UN Sanctions Committee
lifted the freeze on that country's funds yesterday, is welcome but
raises questions again about
John Key's decision to commit of
'millions' from New Zealand, says Maryan Street, Opposition
Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Overseas Development Assistance.
"John Key needs to
answer why he was so quick to pledge millions to an oil-rich country
which had imminent access to frozen funds and yet the government has
been extremely slow to deliver $2 million to Somalia where the world's
worst drought continues to take the lives of untold numbers of
children," said Maryan Street.
PRIORITIES, eh? 