7 Dec 2016 20:36

Russia to pledge $2 mln to UNHCR budget in 2017

MOSCOW. Dec 7 (Interfax) - Russia will pledge $2 million to the 2017 budget of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Russia's Permanent Mission to the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva said on Wednesday.

"#UNHCR should continue its important work in objective and depoliticized way," the mission said on Twitter.