The Supreme Commissar of the UN for refugees Filippo Grandi. UN Refugee Affairs Agency reduces 30 percent due to lack of funding Refugees and migrants ~ 60 > Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees (UNKB UN) announced on Monday about reducing global expenses for staff by about 30 percent after a comprehensive revision of their activities, the budget, personnel composition and organizational structure. The reason was serious financial difficulties. & Amp; nbsp; Almost half of all employees in senior positions at the headquarters of the agency in Geneva and the regional bureau falls under the reduction. In total, about 3,500 permanent posts were eliminated, hundreds of temporary contracts were interrupted, and some offices were completely closed. & Amp; NBSP; & NBSP; according to the report, decisions on where to reduce expenses were made taking into account the priority – maintaining operations in regions with the most acute need for assistance Refugees. & nbsp; financial realities This statement followed the March warning of the UN UNKB that serious financing reductions are in the life of millions of refugees. & Amp; nbsp; & nbsp; it is expected that by the end of the year the volume of available funds will be approximately at the level of ten years ago – despite the fact that the number of forced immigrants in the world has almost doubled and exceeded 12222222 a million people. & nbsp; & NBSP; “Given the difficult financial situation, the UN UNKB is forced to reduce the scale of its activity,” said the Supreme Commissioner of the UN Refugees Filippo Grandi. & nbsp; & nbsp; “We will focus on the efforts in those directions that bring the most benefits of refugees, with the support of more compact structures of the headquarters and regional bureaus,” he added. & nbsp; work continues