The Hindu : Chinese team in Bam

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Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003

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Chinese team in Bam

By P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE DEC. 29. A Chinese team has begun on-site rescue work at the quake-ravaged city of Bam in Iran, it was officially reported in Beijing today.

The Chinese team is said to have been the first batch of volunteers to arrive in the quake-hit area from Asia. Beijing maintains proactive contacts with West Asia, among other regions, in keeping with its profile as the only permanent member of the United Nations Security Council from Asia.

The Japanese Government has decided to extend an emergency grant of the order of $0.77 million towards quake relief in Iran.

While this amount is meant, mainly, for food distribution among the survivors and other affected people in the quake-hit area, Tokyo has decided to send a medical team for rendering emergency aid. In addition, assistance in kind, especially tents as also power generators besides blankets and water tanks, would be supplied. The Japanese Foreign Ministry estimated that the overall aid package would be about $1 million, inclusive of the grant-in-aid. Independent of such official assistance, Japan Platform, a non-governmental organisation for humanitarian help, has begun an exercise to survey the damage and render relief in the quake-hit area, it was announced in Tokyo.

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