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UN food agency warns it will halt its Chechnya operation soon
 Already forced because of lack of funding to reduce assistance to displaced people from war-torn Chechnya, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned it would have to halt its operation in the devastated republic entirely in three months unless fresh pledges are made soon. "From October, we will have absolutely nothing left to distribute," said Koryun Alaverdyan, WFP's Deputy Country Director in the Russian Federation. "The people we seek to assist are the poorest survivors of the Chechen conflict."The UN agency, which also because of lack of funding has had to cut back on the number of Chechens it can support, has mobilized only 28 per cent of the $22 million it needs to feed 250,000 people this year. These include 130,000 primary school children in Chechnya and 27,000 Chechens displaced by the conflict, living in the neighbouring Republic of Ingushetia. Posted by: Fred 2006-07-13 |
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