The Chronicle Journal - World News: "Turkey pledges $150 million to quake survivors, NATO sends troops to Pakistan
By Associated Press
Oct 22, 2005, 00:49
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GHANOOL, Pakistan (AP-CP) — Turkey announced a $150-million US aid pledge Friday for survivors of South Asia’s massive earthquake, as NATO agreed to deploy hundreds of military engineers and medics to bolster relief efforts weeks before the bitter winter begins.
In a sign of the growing desperation, survivors fought over the first food deliveries to their remote Himalayan hamlet since the quake left them homeless two weeks ago.
UN officials said the international response had fallen far short of what is needed, with countries pledging only about one-quarter of the $312 million sought by the world body. By comparison, 80 per cent of the UN appeal after last year’s tsunami was pledged within 10 days.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the world’s countries and people to demonstrate “the same sense of global solidarity and commitment that we saw in the wake of the tsunami” last December that swept across the Indian Ocean from Indonesia to Africa."
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