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11:57 GMT
BRUSSELS, Oct 30 (KUNA) -- The European Union Friday announced that it has allocated an additional EUR 400,000 (USD 466,000) in humanitarian aid to cover the most urgent needs of civilians affected by the conflict in and around Nagorno Karabakh.
With this emergency support to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Red Cross of Armenia and Red Crescent of Azerbaijan will deliver food packages, blankets, hygiene items and other urgently needed help to civilians who were forced to flee due to the hostilities.
EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, said the EU calls for an immediate end to the hostilities that have already claimed civilian lives.
"We are extremely concerned about the deterioration of the humanitarian situation, given the upcoming winter and the aggravating coronavirus pandemic," he said.
This funding brings EU emergency humanitarian aid to EUR 900,000 (USD 1 million) since early October when the hostilities started. (end)
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