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.