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| Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
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Over 18 nations at Tuesday's Pledging conference in Geneva committed US $ 717 million in cash for immediate humanitarian assistance for the 12 countries affected in the tsunami tragedy, the United Nations said yesterday. This ministerial level meeting on humanitarian assistance to tsunami affected communities was chaired by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. Making the biggest commitment in cash, in response to the UN appeal Japan pledged US $ 250 million for tsunami emergency assistance followed by Germany US $ 68 million, Norway US $ 65 million, United Kingdom US $ 74 million, United States US $ 35 million, Sweden US $ 23 million, European Commission US $ 61 million, China US $ 20 million, Canada US $ 29 million, Australia Us $ 40 million, Denmark Us $ 22 million, Finland US $ 30 million and US $ 22 million from the Russian Federation. "This US $ 717 million was concretely committed to our Us $ 977 million appeal. That is 73 per cent of the total," the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Un emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said after the meeting. UN Secretary General appealed for US $ 977 million for emergency relief assistance to the affected nations at the January 6 Tsunami aftermath ASEAN meeting in Jakarta. Altogether 70 nations have taken part in this pledging conference which was also attended by ministers of affected nations. The ADB has committed a total of US$ 676 million for tsunami assistance at the recent ASEAN meeting. Its Resident Director General in Europe said that it was fully committed to delivering it quickly to Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives. The Bank expressed it was fully prepared to support the countries with additional aid for the reconstruction phase. |
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