EU pledges $2.7 mn for flooded Sri Lanka
By DPA, IANSFriday, January 14, 2011
BRUSSELS - The European Union Friday said it would provide flood-stricken Sri Lanka with a $2.7-million humanitarian aid package.
The floods have claimed 23 lives and displaced almost one million people.
“My main concern for the future concerns the livelihood of those affected by the floods. These will affect their crops … I fear the humanitarian impact of increasingly erratic weather,” the EU’s humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement.
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