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    ARMENIAN RED CROSS READY TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES FROM LEBANON

    AZG Armenian Daily #143, 01/08/2006

    Regional

    At present, already 600 people were forced to leave
    Lebanon and Israel for Armenia. 51 of them has turned
    to RA Migration Agency to receive the status of
    temporary residents. But none of them has appealed to
    the Armenian office of the Red Cross yet, though the
    organization is ready to render any kind of assistance
    to them. "if they appeal to us, we can render them
    financial, legal, psychological, consultative aid, as
    well as food," Edmon Azarian, head of Disaster
    Management Department of the Armenian Red Cross
    Office, said. The office has set the list of monthly
    rendered food, including certain amount of oil, rice,
    sugar and other products, as well as financial aid
    envisaged for a year depending on the social status of
    the citizens that turned for help.

    The Armenian Red Cross is collaborating with the UNHCR
    and is being financed by that. "If the number of the
    refugees grows, after evaluating their needs, we will
    be able to render aid to as many people as required,"
    Azarian said. Certainly, the refugees do not turn to
    the Armenian Red Cross, as they have no idea about the
    existence of such a source. Besides, as a result of
    the tense situation in the region, it is expected that
    more Armenians will arrive in Armenia from Georgia.

    By Karine Danielian
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