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Tuesday 26 May 2015 - 13:50 Makkah mean time-8-8-1436
(Image from Astana Times)
Astana, (IINA) - Kazakhstan will provide $200,000 in official humanitarian assistance to Nepal, as decided on Monday by the Commission on International Humanitarian Aid, chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Astana Times reported.
The funds will be allocated from the government's emergency reserve, reported the prime minister’s press service.
Nepal was damaged last April by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which destroyed buildings in Kathmandu and severely affected rural areas across the region. The death toll has risen to 4,310; with almost 8,000 injured as stated in an April 28 BBC report.
“According to initial estimations and based on the latest earthquake intensity mapping, eight million people in 39 districts have been affected, of which over two million people live in the 11 severely-affected districts,” said the network, based on a report from the United Nations Office of the Resident Co-coordinator.
Kazakhstan has no diplomatic presence in Nepal. Yet during the earthquake, the country, in cooperation with the Russian Emergencies Ministry, assisted the evacuation of Kazakh citizens from Kathmandu to New Delhi.
The commission also recommended the government to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. Thus, necessary items like vegetable oil, warm clothes, beds, tents, bedding and dishes will be offered to the Afghan people.
Kazakhstan is currently taking steps to systemize official development assistance (ODA) to foreign countries. For this reason, a KazAID agency that will focus on financial assistance and knowledge transfer is being established by the government. One of its top priorities is aimed at implementing projects in Afghanistan and the less-developed states of Central Asia.
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