Thank you for coming, everybody. Weve had an encouraging morning with Member States and a range of organizations where weve laid out the situation on the ground in bangladesh and asked for help from the international community. Reenforcing the generosity and the hospitality and the extraordinary welcome bangladesh has offered to nearly 600,000 refugees who have fled from myanmar since the 25th of august. On the basis of what weve heard this morning, our assessment is that against the 434 million that we put out in the appeal Response Plan some weeks ago, we now have pledges of 340 million. So were very encouraged by that. In addition, several donors have committed more than 50 million in in kind assistance to bangladesh and myanmar. We know that some of our donors, some of our very important donors are still working on pledges. So were confident that beyond what ive said there will be more support to come. Were also very encouraged by the work thats being done by the world bank, workin
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