Annan to visit Jakarta

[catgirl]

Here's the Reuters link:

World - Reuters
Annan to Visit Jakarta; Pledges Jump to $2 Billion

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 World - Reuters

By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General KofiAnnan (news - web sites) intends to visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as the world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for victims in South Asia, U.N. officials said on Saturday.


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Annan was invited to go to the Indonesia capital of Jakarta on Thursday and the officials told Reuters said he had accepted and would issue a world appeal for relief from there, rather than New York.


More than 1 million people in Indonesia, especially in Indonesia's and Aceh province as well as 700,000 in Sri Lanka will need food aid for months as a result of the disaster, Jan Egeland, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator told his daily news conference.


But he said logistics in distributing aid remained a major challenge.


Egeland said the overall amount donated had increased from some $1.2 billion to about $2 billion, mainly due to a $500 million pledge from Japan, the highest single donation to date, as well as from some 40 other nations. The United States has promised $350 million and the World Bank (news - web sites) $250 million.


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1. catgirl, please edit your post

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TIA

[Vanje]

2. If he really cared....

would'nt he have sent a politically ambitious family member?

[CatWoman]

3. LOL

You beat me to it.