HUMANITARIAN AID TO NAGORNO KARABAKH DWINDLES
Azat Artsakh Daily, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh [NKR]
13 April 07
We have learned from the head of the department of humanitarian aid of
the NKR Ministry of Social Security that in 2006 NKR received
humanitarian aid of about 66 million 151 thousand drams. Organizations
and individuals from Armenia, the United States, France, Germany and
Russia provided second hand medical equipment and medicine for 13
million 810 thousand drams, food for 46 million 900 thousand drams,
secondhand clothes for 83 060 drams, different appliances for 55
million 355 thousand drams. Humanitarian aid comes through the
programs of the Stepanakert office of the Red Cross, The HALO Trust
(U.K.), Shen (France) the Armenian Evangelical Association and Agape
(U.S.). According to M. Dadayan, in 2006 humanitarian aid to Karabakh
went down by 10 million 727 thousand, which he explains by the social
and economic growth in the country.
SVETLANA KHACHATRIAN.
13-04-2007