“Much. Uh, just first to start by joining my colleagues to thank you for the engagement you had with our colleagues. Before your mission and during your mission, and very much actually, for putting the attention on Pakistan, which for us is seen as some sometime a little bit of a forgotten crisis. So thank you very much for that. As you know, we have been mainly delivering humanitarian assistance for the Afghan refugees. That's not the case anymore. We have been forced to start to look at the Pakistanis caseload, as we said, because of floods. It's not we don't call them hazards anymore because the question is not will you have an earthquake or a flood is when will you get an earthquake or flood? So we also have to face first case of internal displacement due to combat in the tribal area in the north. So thank you again for having attracted the attention on this matter. Just to give a figure, the 2 million of Afghans that has been forcibly returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan in the middle of the winter is the aggregated population of Lisboa, Milano and In Amsterdam, 2,000,000.3 million to 2 2.3 million people arriving in the middle of the winter. So this is the the size of the potential crisis, and it has a migration risk involved there. So thank you for having attracted the attention on the crisis, climate change. You mentioned we just activated the emergency aid reserve to to try to address the last displacement following the floods in the Punjab region. We just releasing the new implementing plans for humanitarian response for 2026, where we will put money on Pakistan and we will put money on disaster preparedness.”
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“But to be very transparent, it is time we put more money and it is time to put more effort on the Pakistani side, not only the Afghan refugees, on the Afghan refugees. Thank you very much for having conveyed the message to the Pakistani authorities that they do. They do what they feel the need to do, but there is a way to do it. And and facing the return in a different manner is something which is human. Thank you very much for passing that one question on the climate change. We have been reacting to things. Pakistan is in in an area where we are running next year. The scenario of having several million inhabitant city running out of water. That's the case, possibly in Islamabad, that the case in Kabul, that the case in Tehran, that's the case in Basra. That's the case in many, many regions. We need to go to another level of the way to address this crisis. We talk about 1 million people moving out of a city. Tehran just announced, for example, they might evacuate the city. We need to go to another level in the response. As humanitarian, we put the needs we need more long term funding and support our colleagues in working with us on that. But we really need to have an additional effort. So just to to to thank you for that. I think it's a very timely way to highlight the issue, and we really need to boost what we do on Pakistan and to boost the Pakistani side of things. Thank you very much.”
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