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Interview with Rashid Khalikov, Director of OCHA, New York

01/02/2009

Rashid Khalikov, a graduate of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, started his career as a diplomat with several postings to his credit. However, it was not in diplomacy that he was going to conduct an interesting career, but as a humanitarian. At the time that the United Nations created the Department for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Khalikov was in a posting in New York, and Jan Eliasson, the first Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Assistance, called Mr Khalikov in to…

Impossible does not necessarily mean not possible…

12/29/2008

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“Impossible exists in any language, but nothing is impossible if you really want to !”, said a colleague telling me about his newest project. Lately, we may have been overwhelmed by negative news –– financial crisis, rising energy and commodity prices, food and humanitarian crises, earthquakes, etc. No wonder many people are becoming alarmed and afraid of the future. “You feel a kind of common psychosis, some see a return to the 1930s with all the implications that had for the…