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In November 1979, Sadako Ogata was appointed head of the Cambodian refugee relief inspection mission by the Japanese Ministry of foreign affairs. When she went to Thailand Cambodia border to inspect refugee relief, she had an intuitive understanding of the refugee problem for the first time“ It was a huge refugee crisis, "Sadako Ogata said
one day in the early 1990s, Sadako Ogata turned on the radio and heard in the news that the then United Nations High Commissioner for refugees had resigned. She was very surprised because she had only been in this position for eight months. Sadako Ogata did not expect that she would soon become the next UN High Commissioner for refugees< On December 21, 1990, the then Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Perez de quiliar, decided to choose Sadako Ogata as the most difficult and important position on the international humanitarian stage. Sadako Ogata accepted. "It was also probably the hardest decision of my life, I changed my lifestyle, changed my career and left my family," she recalled Her family once asked her how many years she planned to work, and she replied that it would be only a few years< The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established in 1951. Initially, it was a small international organization with only 23 staff and an annual budget of less than US $5 million. Its main responsibility was to assist the refugees who fled from the socialist countries of Eastern Europe at that time. The Ogata took office as high commissioner under such a special situation as the end of the cold war. She had thought that the refugee problem would be solved soon after the end of the cold war, but she never thought that one thousand would be three periods for ten consecutive years. There is no precedent for this among her previous seven High Commissioners
in the past ten years, with her short body only 1.5 meters high, but wearing a bullet proof vest with a weight of 15 kg, she has changed from a scholar to a thorough "sittist". She spent more than half of the year at the refugee scene, such as this week in Geneva, next week in Iran, and next week in Rwanda. According to statistics, she has walked around the earth four and a half times in the first three years. It can be said that she has traveled all over the refugee areas, from Europe to Asia, to Africa, to Central America, where there are refugees, there are her footprints. Everywhere she went, she had to inspect refugee camps, training centers, and negotiate with the government authorities, the opposing parties, and some with the military. In the past 10 years as the UN High Commissioner for refugees, according to the actual situation, the Ogata has broken through many old rules of supporting refugees and carried out a series of pioneering work. If it is not at home or abroad, it is at home to set up safety zones and refugee camps, protect them first, and then carry out rescue, so as to rece the physical and mental consumption of refugees. This has been done in both Iraq and Somalia. At that time, despite strong opposition from many people in the refugee agency, the Ogata resolutely decided to adopt the above rescue measures in accordance with the actual situation. She believes that although the practice has changed, the basic principles are the same. Instead of waiting, she is proactive and strives for time, that is, trying to protect the refugees and ensure their safety. On January 1, 1991, Sadako Ogata, then 63, took office. Just a few days after taking office, the UN refugee agency was faced with the problems left over by the Gulf War. More than 400000 Kurdish refugees are trapped in northern Iraq, unable to cross the border into Turkey. Technically speaking, they are not refugees and do not belong to the jurisdiction of the UN refugee agency. However, the international community needs the UN refugee agency to provide humanitarian assistance to them. Sadako Ogata said that this was a "watershed" decision. In order to ensure the safety of the refugees, Sadako Ogata came to the then US President Bush and only said to him, "please don't withdraw your soldiers." Such a request is very rare, but in the chaotic situation in Iraq, Sadako Ogata has no choice. Her belief is that "the bottom line is always the welfare and security of refugees."
in Cambodia, she has made great efforts to create a new mode of handling refugees, that is, to send UN peacekeeping forces to rule for a period of time. In this process, she has vigorously carried out all aspects of work, and graally repatriated and resettled refugees. In this way, 400000 Cambodian refugees were repatriated
in addition, it is unprecedented in the past that relief materials are transported to Sarajevo citizens by air ring the combat gap that has not yet been stopped. At that time, Sarajevo was heavily besieged and completely isolated. The citizens were trapped at home and could not go out to buy food, and there was no food to buy at all. For a time, they became "domestic refugees". They could not survive unless they relied on international protection and assistance. Of course, in this process, there have been some angry decisions made by the Ogata to suspend the air transportation of goods and materials, which has become a major event that shocked the United Nations. But looking back, it is not unreasonable for the government to make this decision at that time. In order to show the world that they are isolated, and to condemn and pressure the Serbs, the Muslims on the receiving side have closed the passage from the airport to the city, making the aid impossible. Obviously, this action has a strong political color, and according to the regulations, humanitarian assistance is never allowed to be used politically, so this incident happened. In the next few days, when the Muslim side announced that it would stop the boycott, the Syrian side immediately ordered that the airlift be resumed. From this incident, it can be seen that the Syrian side is an aggressive woman, and it is entirely reasonable that it is known as "the high school of action"
in the past decade, she has made major reforms to the organization of the office, streamlining its staff and saving money. During the Gulf War in 1991, she immediately decided to set up an emergency response section in the office of the United Nations on the basis of the actual needs of refugee relief and criticism that the United Nations response to refugees was too slow. She also raised $25 million for emergency assistance. At that time, in the headquarters of Geneva, five aid experts were arranged to be on ty at ordinary times. In case of emergency, a small number of staff with language ability and professional knowledge could be selected at any time according to the situation, and immediately formed a rescue team to rush to the scene as soon as possible with communication equipment, tents, first-aid boxes and other indispensable items. We have also set up storage warehouses for rescue materials around the world to form an air transportation system, forming a 24-hour emergency handling mechanism. In the past ten years, she has also given strong support to China's work of properly accepting and resettling nearly 300000 Indo Chinese refugees, mainly Vietnamese refugees, and has also given a lot of financial assistance. When she was invited to visit China in late July 1992, she also made a special trip to Guangxi and Guangdong to visit Chinese refugee resettlement sites. She spoke highly of China's refugee resettlement work and considered it "a model of resettlement work in the world". What is particularly praiseworthy is that around 1993, when she learned that almost all the citrus trees planted on her farm were frozen to death e to natural disasters among the refugees resettled in Jiangxi, China, she immediately used the personal high school fund of 300000 US dollars to give emergency assistance to restore their proction and construction, which fully reflected her great concern and support for the refugees resettled in China. Before Hong Kong's return to China on July 1, 1997, she also made great efforts, either to promote the British and Vietnamese governments to speed up the pace of repatriation, or to help boat people and refugees resettle in a third country, so as to solve the problem of Vietnamese boat people and refugees stranded in Hong Kong
she has paid two official visits to China, one in late July 1992 and the other in early 1997. She has repeatedly said that she has great feelings for China and attaches great importance to her relations with China. As she said in her book postwar Japan China relations between the United States and China, "for Japan, China is a very important neighbor. The relationship with China, whether before or after the war, has always been a central topic in Japan's foreign relations. In terms of politics, economy and culture, Japan and China are not simply a kind of relationship between countries, but a bond formed by the people themselves beyond the national relationship. ". During Sadako Ogata's term of office, the principles of UN refugee relief were constantly challenged. Facing such a dilemma, Sadako Ogata sometimes said to her colleagues, "we are not Hamlet. We can't forget about the dilemma. You have to judge and make a quick decision based on whether you can better protect people. " Many years after leaving the post of the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata is still thinking, "humanitarian aid can play a great role, but it can't play the whole role," she said
however, in the past 10 years, thousands of refugees have been rescued, and Sadako Ogata's efforts have been unanimously affirmed. Whether it is UN officials, donor countries or recipient countries, they are full of respect when referring to this Oriental woman. Wu Jianmin, President of the Foreign Affairs Institute, who worked with Sadako Ogata at the United Nations, commented: "in 10 years, Sadako Ogata has completed the most impossible work."
in short, in the past decade, the government has done a lot of practical and good things and solved many refugee problems. As she has concluded, the problem of Indo Chinese refugees has been solved in Asia. In Africa, 1.7 million refugees, led by Mozambique, have returned to settle in their hometown. In Central America, the return of Guatemalan refugees and their settlement in Mexico brought the refugee problem to an end. Refugees in Bosnia and Rwanda are moving towards solutions
it is precisely because of her achievements mentioned above and her lofty spirit and quality that she has won praise from all over the world and won many international awards, such as the United Nations science, ecation and culture "bowani peace award" (the 16 million yen prize was set up for the Ecation Fund for African refugee children), "Philadelphia Medal of freedom" in the United States, and "the United States Medal of freedom" "Asian Nobel Prize". In 2001, she became Japan's "cultural meritorious person", Sweden also awarded her "Polaris Medal" and so on. It can be seen that e to her special position and her own practical efforts. Not only has he won high honor in the world, but also he has contributed to improving Japan's influence in the international community
in 2001, when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited Africa, the slogans of the local people were to welcome Ogata. In 2002, Junichiro Koizumi even wanted her to be foreign minister. On May 8, 2004, Sadako Ogata, then director general of Japan International Cooperation Agency, received a gift from a female representative ring her visit to Senegal