Italy pledges 7 million euros for Rohingya minority

Italy has affianced 7 million euros to assistance some-more than half a million Rohingyas, especially women and children, who have fled to Bangladesh to shun dispute in Myanmar, Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said. “We are deeply endangered about a conditions of a Rohingya people. During a final few weeks, over half a million people, mostly women and children, had to leave Myanmar and find retreat in Bangladesh,” he said.

Rohingya refugee
Rohingya refugees. Pic/AFP

Alfano’s remarks came as a UN and a European Union called a Donors Conference in Geneva to lift over USD 430 million to assistance a especially Muslim Rohingya refugees who have fled a lethal troops crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakine state given Aug 25. “In Geneva, Italy affianced 7 million euros in charitable assist to financial puncture service activities to assure food, medical and insurance by a specialised UN Agencies and a International Committee of a Red Cross both in Bangladesh and in Myanmar,” Alfano said.

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Italy’s diplomats will also work within a EU and a UN Security Council to safeguard that Myanmar’s confidence army honour tellurian rights, that civilians were stable and that a UN gains charitable entrance to a area, a Foreign Ministry said. Italy will also try to assistance Rohingya refugees lapse to Myanmar as fast as probable and “in conditions guaranteeing their confidence and dignity”, a Ministry said.

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