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Strife in East Timor: UN launches an appeal for funding

Dili, East Timor - USD 4.8m to aid more than 65 thousand displaced people

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asks for USD 4.8m to finance rescue operations to more than 65 thousand displaced people in East Timor, where a violent strife has been occurring for about three weeks (see AVIONEWS for details). The UN Agency has been engaged in supplying emergency lodgings, urgent need assets and protection to refugees also through an air lift: the third Antonov-12 which...

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Rome, Italy, 06/09/2006 18:28
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