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The meeting in Oslo had been billed as a mini-pledging conference for quick impact humanitarian projects.
BBC: G L Peiris, left, and Anton Balasingham
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EU's pledging conference planned for November is supposed to spot other gaps in defences too.
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Addressing the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Kuwait City on Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon described the situation in Syria as "catastrophic".
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"This was not a pledging conference, and yet, we already received the kinds of commitments that historically you don't see at a conference like this, " he said.
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But he said they had much more ambitious hopes for another pledging conference in Tokyo about six months from now, when he said the peace process would have progressed much further.
BBC: G L Peiris, left, and Anton Balasingham
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"After Annapolis, there will be an important pledging conference in Paris, where we Europeans, of course, will maintain our high levels of support to the Palestinians, but where we also want to see burden-sharing by our Arab friends, " Ferrero-Waldner said.
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Once you've figured out which transferable skills to invest in, make a concrete action plan you can stick to, whether by signing up for a course or conference, or simply by pledging to spend one hour each week teaching yourself something.
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