Question: My question was that $358 million is only but a drop in the ocean on the amount of money that you anticipated to collected, which was $2 billion. What do we expect next? Are you going to be making more appeals to donors, or are you going to start working within a tight budget with this amount of money? 
  
Secretary-General: I have been in many pledging conferences, as you can imagine, in my last twelve years of life, and I think this is a good start, a good starting point. You never have in an initial pledging conference the total amount you ask for, not even something close to that. But to have as a starting figure, $358 million, plus the commitments of the World Bank and the African Development Bank in relation to the possibility of innovative funding to Uganda for different projects of different natures,  related not only to refugees, but also with the host community, I think it is a very good start. But we cannot stop. We need to go on, and several of the countries today said that they were not able to pledge now, but they will be announcing, in the next few weeks, additional amounts. So I think we can congratulate Uganda and the President of Uganda, because this initiative is, in my opinion, a success.   

Question: [On South Sudan] 

Secretary-General: If I may, first of all, in relation to the IGAD declaration: I think it is clear that we have now IGAD, African Union and the UN totally aligned with the same very clear position. A very clear position regarding the need for the cessation of hostilities in South Sudan and the very clear position regarding the need of a comprehensive dialogue involving all the relevant parties to make sure that there is a peaceful picture in South Sudan. We are all united in this, and I believe that this will translate itself sooner rather than later, together with the initiatives that the President Museveni is taking in the creation of conditions for this horrible conflict to end. Because, if there is one clear message from all the refugees we met, is that this conflict must stop – it is politically and morally unacceptable. How long… will the POCs [Protection of Civilians sites] be protecting the sites, protecting the people displaced there, my answer is very simple: as long as necessary. Obviously, we hope that a peace solution in the country will solve all these problems, together with those 2 million internally displaced and those refugees outside the country, but our intention is, of course, to afford protection to those in need for as long as it is necessary.   

Question: L’Ouganda a accueilli déjà plus d’un million de réfugiés, l’Europe est déjà très réticente à ouvrir ses portes, quelle est votre opinion là-dessus : est-ce-que vous pensez que l’Europe devrait faire plus d’efforts pour ouvrir ses portes? 

Secretary-General: La réponse est très simple : est-ce que l’Europe a fait suffisamment? Non, pas suffisamment. Il y a des pays qui ont fait beaucoup, il y en a d’autres qui ont fait très peu et c’est ça le problème. 

Pour répondre à la dimension de l’entrée de réfugiés, l’entrée potentielle de réfugiés en Europe, il faudrait que l'Europe soit unie et en solidarité. Il faudrait que l’Europe puisse avoir une politique européenne pour gérer la situation d’une façon solidaire.   

Malheureusement, si on regarde par exemple le programme de relocalisation à partir de l’Italie, ça démontre que le programme n’est pas allé suffisamment  loin. Il nous faut plus de solidarité, il nous faut plus d’unité en Europe pour que l’Europe puisse respecter ses engagements vis-à-vis de la protection des réfugiés.