Yesterday UNHCR, in coordination with authorities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance and the UN
Country Team in Kyrgyzstan, dispatched a first consignment of 400 mattresses and 1,500 blankets from its warehouse in Osh to aid victims of the strong earthquake that struck the remote mountainous
region of Kyrgyzstan, close to its borders with Tajikistan and China, overnight Sunday. UNHCR also provided an interagency assessment team, dispatched from Osh into the affected areas, with urgently
needed communications equipment. Today, as more information from the disaster area is being received, we and our partners continue to assess humanitarian needs and how our emergency stocks in Osh
could be used to relieve the victims of the earthquake.
People search for usable coal at a cinder dump site on a hazy day in Changzhi, Shanxi province October 7, 2008. Negotiations seeking a global pact to tackle global warming are ...
