$1m Aid Offered For Myanmar
Posted by darderdor on 7th May 2008
Indonesia has joined the international community by donating aid worth US$1 million to Myanmar after a cyclone that swept through the country last weekend left more than 15,000 dead. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday informed Myanmarese diplomats of Indonesia’s intentions and asked them what the country needed to cope with the disaster.
“The tragedy has reminded the President of the December 2004 tsunami in Aceh. He decided Indonesia must help Myanmar,” presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal told a news briefing. “That’s why we will send relief aid supplies worth $1 million to the country as soon as possible.” Read the rest of this entry »
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