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Monday, 3 June, 2002, 09:44 GMT 10:44 UK
Afghan aid 'insufficient'
Twenty-three years of war have destroyed Kabul
International donors are failing to live up to their pledges for Afghanistan, with the short fall running into hundreds of millions of dollars, the United Nations has said.
The UN envoy for recovery, relief and reconstruction, Nigel Fisher, said the World Bank trust fund for Afghanistan's interim administration had received only $45m of the $400m (£275m) budget needed to run the government.
Overall, the UN requested $1.8bn for Afghanistan between October 2001 and December 2002 but only $870m had been paid, Mr Fisher said. The $526m received after the Afghan donor conference in Tokyo fell "well below aspirations", he said. 'Not enough' "We face the fact that overall what is coming into this country is insufficient and will continue to be so whatever is being done," Mr Fisher said. Mr Fisher denied the UN had underestimated how much money would be needed to reconstruct Afghanistan. "It's a question of too little perhaps is offered," he said.
Food shortage The International Organisation of Migration, which has repatriated over 250,000 people, on Sunday indefinitely suspended transport for returning refugees due to lack of funds. The UN's World Food Programme, which is feeding nine million Afghans facing starvation after years of drought, has also run short of food. "We still have an immediate humanitarian crisis facing us," said Mr Fisher. "Priorities mean some people, some communities, some parts of the country get resources, it means others are left out," he said. Food assistance to civil servants, designed to keep the government running smoothly, may be cut back in coming weeks, he said.
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