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• UNITED NATIONS INFORMED OF INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE PLAN FOR FOOD AIRDROPS IN KOSOVO .
• The United Nations has been informed of a plan by the International Rescue Committee to conduct airdrops over Kosovo in order to provide emergency food aid to internally displaced persons. ... The World Food Programme (WFP) has agreed to observe the inspection by Societe Generale de Surveillance, a Swiss firm, of the loading of the aircraft for these airdrops, to certify that only food supplies for humanitarian purposes are loaded. ...

• Airdrops jeopardize Afghan aid operations, Christian agency says.
• Note #6905 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS: 17-October-2001 01388 Airdrops jeopardize Afghan aid operations, Christian agency says Dropping food with bombs is dangerous and 'at best' symbolic, aid worker says by Laurie Spurr GENEVA - An international network of church aid agencies has criticized humanitarian airdrops linked to U. ... The airdrops were "jeopardizing the credibility of humanitarian aid in the region and were not an effective means of meeting the desperate needs of the people of Afghanistan," said Thor?Arne Prois, director of ACT's coordinating office, in a statement released on Oct. ... Prois said the airdrops violated basic tenets of humanitarian aid, including the need for neutrality and impartiality. "Simultaneous air strikes and airdrops constitute a total confusion of humanitarian and military actions," he said. ... "At best these airdrops are a symbolic gesture," Prois said. ... Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has reportedly admitted that airdrops are less effective than delivery of aid by land. ...

• Airdrops to help Kosovans trapped in mountains.
• The United States is preparing airdrops of food and medical supplies into Kosovo in an attempt to save hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians trapped in remote highland areas and facing mass starvation and disease.
• But the plan is still fraught with problems with the safety of the pilots, the effectiveness of the airdrops and the need to gain at least tacit approval from Belgrade.
• Washington views airdrops as a better alternative, as they would not interrupt the momentum of the air campaign. ...
• Airdrops of food and medicines were also used widely in Bosnia in 1993 and 1994, to supply the Muslim enclaves of Gorazde, Zepa, Srebrenica, Tesanj and Maglaj, with mixed results. ...
• US officials say the airdrops over Kosovo are likely to be from about the same height. ...

• "The international medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has been working in Afghanistan since 1979, today cast doubt on the so-called 'humanitarian airdrops' by US and British military forces, which have accompanied the military strikes against Afghanistan over the last 24-hours. ...

• Médecins Sans Frontières casts doubt on military's 'humanitarian airdrops' in Afghanistan.
• Airdrops of food and medical aid described as of 'negligible value' and 'potentially dangerous' .
• Press release, Islamabad, Oct 8, 2001: The international medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has been working in Afghanistan since 1979, today cast doubt on the so-called 'humanitarian airdrops' by US and British military forces, which have accompanied the military strikes against Afghanistan over the last 24-hours. ...

• WFP Launches Second Phase of Airdrops in Darfur Amid Rains .
• NAIROBI, 27 August 2004 — The UN World Food Program yesterday said it has launched the second phase of relief food airdrops to areas in Sudan’s Darfur region, despite the heavy rains battering the region. “In order to deliver much-needed food to people living in camps around El-Geneina, the second phase of airdrops includes the town itself and is already under way,” WFP said in a statement sent to AFP in Nairobi. ...
• “Air operations are not immune to the effects of the rains, as heavy downpours have already caused postponement of airdrops by 24 hours in some cases,” it said. ...

• International | Previous | Next Aid agency criticises food airdrops .
• The international relief aid agency, Medecin Sans Frontieres, which has been working in Afghanistan since 1979, today cast doubt on the ``humanitarian airdrops'' by the U. ...
• In a strongly worded statement issued here, the agency said the airdrops did not answer the needs of the Afghan people and were likely to undermine attempts to deliver substantial aid to the most vulnerable. ...

• WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL AIRDROPS IN EAST TIMOR .
• ROME, 17 September (WFP) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that the first humanitarian airdrops were completed successfully in East Timor today, with the delivery of desperately needed food and blankets to tens of thousands of people hiding in the mountains from political violence. ...
• Two C-130 cargo planes lent to the WFP by the Australian defence force left Darwin earlier today and performed airdrops in three locations in East Timor. ...

• Food Airdrops Will Continue As Long As Needed .
• The airdrops will assist the Afghan people who are coping with a growing humanitarian crisis, he said. ...
• The Air Force is prepared to airdrop up to 2 million food packets, but airdrops will also include medicine, blankets and comfort items, the Pentagon said. ...
• The daily ration packets provided through airdrops were designed by the Defense Department for use in emergencies to feed and sustain moderately malnourished people until more traditional feeding systems become available, the Pentagon said. ...

• Food Airdrops Will Continue As Long As Needed.
• The airdrops will assist the Afghan people who are coping with a growing humanitarian crisis, he said.
• The Air Force is prepared to airdrop up to 2 million food packets, but airdrops will also include medicine, blankets and comfort items, the Pentagon said.
• The daily ration packets provided through airdrops were designed by the Defense Department for use in emergencies to feed and sustain moderately malnourished people until more traditional feeding systems become available, the Pentagon said.

• Food Airdrops Will Continue As Long As Needed .
• The airdrops will assist the Afghan people who are coping with a growing humanitarian crisis, he said.
• The Air Force is prepared to airdrop up to 2 million food packets, but airdrops will also include medicine, blankets and comfort items, the Pentagon said.
• The daily ration packets provided through airdrops were designed by the Defense Department for use in emergencies to feed and sustain moderately malnourished people until more traditional feeding systems become available, the Pentagon said.

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