Emergency Grant Aid for people injured by the armed clashes in Libya

September 13, 2011
Japanese

On Tuesday, September 13, the Government of Japan decided to provide emergency grant aid of 2 million US dollars for people injured by the armed clashes between the Qadthafi group and anti-Qadthafi groups in Libya, on requests of the National Transitional Council (NTC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) budget extension appeal.
The Government of Japan will immediately implement this assistance in cooperation with the ICRC.
Together with other assistance already provided such as the emergency grant aid of 5 million US dollars, the Government of Japan will have assisted Libya with about 8.2 million US dollars in total.

(*This is a provisional translation. The above date denotes the date of the issue of the original press release in Japanese.)

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