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| Today: 10 July 2009 Time: 01:42 PM |
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| US announces USD 18 million, Iraq USD 25 million |
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| Military and Security 4/17/2007 6:58:00 PM |
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US announces USD 18 million, Iraq USD 25 million
GENEVA, April 17 (KUNA) -- US Under-Secretary of State Paaula Dobriansky
announced today that her government expects in 2007 to provide USD 100 million
in humanitarian assistance for Iraqis, both inside and outside Iraq.
She added, in a news conference today, that the US will also contribute USD
18 million to the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) emergency appeal
for Iraqi displacement.
Dobriansky added that the US might be able to take this year for
resettlement some 25,000 Iraqi asylum seeker.
The US official in charge of Democracy and Global affairs said that the US
is taking into consideration the plight of 40,000 third-country refugees still
living in Iraq among them 15,000 Palestinians.
Dobriansky said it is the responsibility of the Iraqi government and UNHCR
to protect those refugees.
She said that she is pleased the Iraqi foreign minister Hoshiar Zibary has
announced Iraq's contribution of USD 25 million.
While Switzerland has announced the doubling of its assistance for the
Iraqi displacement problem from SFR 2 million to SFR 4 million. (end)
hn.rk
KUNA 171858 Apr 07NNNN
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