US Secretary of States Hillary Clinton and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will attend the special meeting in which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will ask the member-states to make donations in order toprovide humanitarian aid to the 15 million flood-affected Pakistanis.At least 1400 people have died so far in a devastating flood. The UN Agencies have said hundreds of thousands of people affected by the floods in Pakistan have yet to receive aid stressing that the relief operation remains under funded. Officials say the humanitarian situation there remains one of the most serious they have ever experienced. Six million people are in need of immediate assistance. Extra emergency funds have been pledged to help more than twenty million people affected by the disaster. The World Food Programme has so far distributed food to less than a million people. The obstacles in the way of reaching to the affected are that bridges have been washed away, roads blocked by landslides.
News On AIR | August 18, 2010 9:08 AM
The UN calls a special meeting of General Assembly to discuss situation in flood-hit Pakistan