Armenia to send 30 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip
ArmInfo. Armenia will send about 30 tons of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. A resolution on this
decision was adopted on March 28 at a government meeting.
As Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan
stated, the adoption of the draft decision of the RA government is
conditioned by the willingness to provide social support to about 1.5
million people forced to leave Gaza and settled at the Rafah
checkpoint, who are in a difficult socio- economic situation as a
result of recent developments around the Gaza Strip. As part of
humanitarian assistance, the RA government will provide internally
displaced persons with food and medicine (in particular, canned food,
dry rations, antibiotics, medical solutions), ensuring their basic
socio-economic needs.
To provide assistance, the RA government will allocate 19 million
drams from the Reserve Fund. "A total of 29.94 tons of humanitarian
aid will be send," Sargsyan said.
And, since the delivery of aid is carried out by the Ministry of
Defense, the project proposes to allocate appropriate funds to the
Ministry of Defense. In total, state budget expenses will amount to
about 75.4 million drams.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in turn, recalled that the agreement
on sending humanitarian aid was reached during his official visit to
Egypt in early March.
On March 5, PM Pashinyan, at a briefing with Egypt's President Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo said that the Republic of Armenia will send
humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, solving logistics issues with the
help of Egypt. "Armenia regrets the tens of thousands of innocent
victims as a result of the escalation of hostilities in the Gaza
Strip. We have ourselves lived through the horror of attacks on
civilians and civilian infrastructure, and we join the international
community's calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In
this context, we highly appreciate Egypt's steps to ensure
uninterrupted access of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the
reception of wounded Palestinians and the evacuation of foreigners,"
Pashinyan said.