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U.N. Official Says Airdrops to Quake Area May Be Halted에 관한 주제로 작성한 레포트 예문입니다.

저작시기 : 2006년 5월

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u.n.official says airdrops to
quake area may be halted
airdrops of food, tents and o
ther urgent aid to earthquake survivors will be suspended in a matter of days if there is not an immediate infusion of donations, the united nations warned on friday.
nearly three weeks after the
oct.8 earthquake flattened entire cities and hamlets across northern pakistan, killing more than 53, people and leaving up to three million homeless, humanitarian relief has been hamstrung by a severe shortage of funds.of the $550 million that the united nations says it needs, only 20 percent has been pledged, and an even smaller fraction has been delivered.
the united nations resident c
oordinator in pakistan, jan vandemoortele, said friday evening that nearly all of the money in hand had been spent, that emergency reserves had been exhausted and that some relief operations, notably those using helicopters, would have to stop in less than a week without new funds.
with the mountains expected t
o be blanketed in snow in less than a month, the window for delivering aid is narrowing.hundreds of thousands of families remain without tents.the world food program estimated friday that it would have to help feed more than two million people this winter.
helicopters are the most expe
nsive items in the relief operations, and they are vital for reaching mountain villages where roads have been blocked by landslides.mr.vandemoortele said the flights would have to stop within four to five days.
none of the predictions on fr
iday were optimistic.the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs estimated that up to 30 percent of the quake-affected areas had yet to receive aid.the international organization for migration reported it still needed 200, tents, about a third of the total required.according to reuters, the world meteorological organization told reporters in geneva that studies predicted an unusually cold winter.
the growing sense of urgency
seemed to have little effect on discussions under way between india and pakistan to open their disputed frontier in kashmir.
the two countries have exchan
ged proposals and counterproposals over the past week about how best to help kashmiris affected by the earthquake.
pakistans president, gen.perv
ez musharraf, has called for opening the de facto boundary, the line of control, to allow survivors to cross over and assist in relief efforts, while india has suggested setting up medical relief tents on its side of the disputed frontier.
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