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France increases aid, offers transport
08-16-2010, 03:44 PM
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France increases aid, offers transport
France announced Sunday it would send a plane loaded with 60 tonnes of aid to flood-hit Pakistan, and signalled it is ready to use its military equipment to help transport relief. "Given the exceptional seriousness of the situation, Bernard Kouchner has decided to send a plane carrying 60 tonnes (60,000 kilograms) of humanitarian aid," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

In a letter to the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, French President Nicolas Sarkozy also said the country was prepared to use its military aircraft to help transport aid. "It strikes me as essential, for obvious humanitarian and political reasons, that Europe shows its solidarity with the Pakistani population in a visible manner," Sarkozy said.

It was "in the interest of Europe to also ensure the development and stability of this country," the president added.

The aircraft carrying the 60 tonnes of aid will leave France on Wednesday to reach Islamabad Thursday, and will include emergency equipment, makeshift shelters and drinking water. This adds to the one million euros (1.3 million dollars) that France has already allocated to Pakistan since the start of the disaster, which the UN says has ravaged one fifth of the country and 20 million people.
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