Thursday, October 27, 2005

UN Baffled by Lack of Aid to Quake Victims

"When the money runs out, the choppers stay on the ground and that's what's going to start happening in the next couple of days," Robert Smith told a Geneva news conference a day after a major conference failed to produce significant cash.
The United Nations aimed to raise $550 million at Wednesday's conference. It got a meager $16 million.
Some aid agencies were already out of money and others desperately juggling budgets to try to cope, aid officials said.

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