RUSSIA EXTENDS HUMANITARIAN AID OF $2MLN TO ARMENIA

ARKA
Feb 26, 2008

YEREVAN, February 26. /ARKA/. Russia extended humanitarian aid of
$2mln to Armenia. Liana Kharatyan, the head of the Project Department
of the UN World Food Program (WFP) Yerevan Office told reporters on
Tuesday that 2,360 tons of wheat flour and 330 tons of vegetable oil
were sent to be distributed among 50,000 socially vulnerable residents
living in five Armenian regions during the future three months.

"Thus, the total volume of Russian aid extended to Armenia reached
$4mln," she said. The new consignment will arrive in Armenia in
April 2008.

However, the UN Food Aid Agency still faces a problem of 25%
lack of the necessary food aid volume to be rendered to Armenia,
Kharatyan said. The UN WFP is looking for new donors now, Kharatyan
said and expressed optimism that the Agency will manage to make up
the deficiency soon.