Abu Dhabi, June 20: A delegation from the UAE Red Crescent Authority (UAE RCA) has left for Uzbekistan to distribute humanitarian aid for refugees who were displaced by the Kyrgyz-Uzbek violence in Kyrgyzstan over the past week.
The RCA aid for the refugees was ordered by Shaikh Hamdan bin Zayed, the Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region and President of the UAE RCA.
A quick assessment of the humanitarian conditions on ground will be made by the UAE RCA team to develop a plan to distribute emergency aid which includes blankets, tents, food and medicine, according to Dr Saleh Al Taei, Secretary General of UAE RCA and head of the delegation to Uzbekistan.
Taei says UAE’s aid materials to be procured by UAE RCA from Uzbekistan’s local markets will be hauled on trucks to the borders with Kyrgyzstan.
The team will hold meetings with representatives of international aid agencies and the Uzbek Red Crescent to coordinate the emergency humanitarian operation.
While there, the team will also work with representatives of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to implement a memorandum of understanding singed earlier with the UAE’s Shaikha Fatima Fund for Refugee Women and Children and UAE RCA to help refugee women and children.
The majority of refugees at the closed Kyrgyz-Uzbek borders are women and children.
–Agencies