For the past 5 years Kazakhstan rendered USD 56 mln in humanitarian aid
ASTANA. December 29. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ "For the past five years Kazakhstan rendered USD 56 mln in humanitarian aid," official spokesman of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Altai Abibbullayev told a briefing.
The international community highly appraised the results of the extraordinary meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on Somalia held in Istanbul under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan. The Government rendered USD 500,000 as humanitarian aid to Somalia.
Besides, Kazakhstan keeps on assisting Afghanistan. A group of 179 Afghan students arrived in Kazakhstan in 2011. April this year the Kazakh Emergencies Ministry sent there 5,000 tons of rice as humanitarian assistance.
In 2011 Kazakhstan rendered humanitarian and financial aid to Tajikistan, quake-stricken Turkey, Libya, Japan and implementation of Chernobyl projects.