The United Nations' Emergency Flash Appeal for Southeast Asia

In addition to all of the medical help, supplies, and logistics being provided by Israeli organizations, Israel has already committed an additional $100,000 in cash towards the United Nations' Emergency Flash Appeal. This figure was reported by Ms. Elizabeth Byrs, the head of the Advocacy & Public Information Section of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) located in Geneva, Switzerland. She added that this figure is not final, and also does not take into account the cost of all of the supplies and personnel Israel has already sent or will be sending in the future.

There is currently no list by country available at this time, but Ms. Byrs mentioned that so far, 722 million dollars had been pledged out of a goal of 977 million dollars for the Flash Appeal. Ms. Byers did not have an exact figure of how many countries had pledged so far, but she said that the figure is no more than 70.

Links

UN's plan for relief:
http://www.un.org/News/dh/infocus/Tsunami/tsunamiflashappeal.pdf
Ms. Elizabeth Byrs, the PR contact for the UN's OCHA, was interviewed by the author of this article

UN's tsunami relief effort homepage:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=102&Body=tsunami&Body1=

CNN article detailing efforts as of January 7th
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/08/asia.tsunami/index.html

Most recent tally of victims, by country:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tsunami.deaths/

Unofficial, partial list of government pledges for aid, by country (not for UN's Flash Appeal):
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/02/world.relief.contribution.reut/index.html

ReliefWeb's tsunami update page:
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND/5F8A41AE2188E3A949256F76002F8861?
OpenDocument&StartKey=South+Asia:+Earthquake+and+Tsunami+-+Dec+2004&ExpandView

Arab countries criticized and self-criticized for lack of giving:
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/
c8a5e41f1e605879c1256f870051a795?OpenDocument

UN emphasizes that time is of the essence in helping tsunami victims; criticizes general lack of Muslim humanitarian assistance:
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/
c279339acb36bf3585256f87005cf9dc?OpenDocument

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