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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7773

5 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid
EUR 5.5 million for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran

Brussels, 04/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Commission approved the granting of humanitarian funds to Afghanistan (EUR 3.89 million), to Pakistan (EUR 1.12 million) and to Iran (EUR 400,000) to aid the most vulnerable people, victims of drought. Taken from the ECHO budget this money will finance emergency aid projects over the next ten months, in close co-ordination with the World Food Programme (WFP). This aid from ECHO raises to EUR 80.5 million the total aid allocated to the region since...

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