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Red Crescent Society pledges Dh1m for Iraq

The society is planning to keep the strategic stores it has opened for war emergencies in the Iraqi capital well stocked with food and relief supplies, Khalifa Nasser Al Suweidi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the UAE RCS, said in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.

According to Mr Suweidi, the UAE RCS had also provided Al Mansoor Hospital and the Saddam Hospital with general relief supplies like powder milk for children and medical equipment.

A shipload of food-stuff for distribution in Iraq as the war intensifies, had also been sent lately from the UAE.

Mr Suweidi stressed the importance of the organisation's co-ordination with the International Red Cross, in evaluating the humanitarian situation and ensuring that the aid was channelled in the right direction to reach the people who needed it most.

Meanwhile, the UAE RCS and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) discussed cooperation in the humanitarian situation of the Palestinian refugees on Thursday.

According to San'a Darwish Al Kitbi, the UAE RCS's Secretary-General, the RCS would extend support to the UNRWA's humanitarian programmes in Palestine and was in the process of implementing new humanitarian programmes in Palestine.

The meeting, which saw the handing over of an amount of Dh200,000 to the RCS raised by the UAE Diplomatic Spouses Group (DSG) for its humanitarian programmes in the field of women and child care, was also attended by Dr Saleh Moussa Al Taei, Director of the RCS Department for Relief and Emergency, and Andrew Whitley, UNRWA's Director of External Relations Department.

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