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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8074

20 October 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid
ECHO's current priority is to continue to provide aid inside Afghanistan itself by supplying shelter and stepping up food security

Brussels, 19/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - The massive floods of refugees that have been forecast since the beginning of the US air strikes have not yet come to pass (see EUROPE of 19 October, p.11), so the driving priority for ECHO, the European Community Humanitarian Office (and for its humanitarian partners in the field), is to ensure that aid continues to get through to Afghanistan, as Hélène Quentrec, one of ECHO's two correspondents in Islamabad (Pakistan) explained to journalists on...

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