Bangladesh To Send Relief To Lebanon
Siddique Islam - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Bangladesh's government has decided to send relief to war-stricken Lebanon along with the initiative to bring back the Bangladeshis stranded from the country. The decision was made at a meeting of the Relief and Disaster Management Ministry of Bangladesh with its minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibna Yusuf in the chair on Wednesday. Relief materials including food, medicine, clothes and blankets will be sent within the next week through Red Crescent. Meanwhile, Zahirul Huq, foreign ministry spokesman, tells reporters that the process of bringing back the first batch of 140 Bangladeshis from Lebanon has been finalized and they will be brought back to Dhaka in a couple of days. So far 300 Bangladeshis have expressed their desire to return home. The spokesman adds the International Organization for Migration (IOM) would bring the intending Bangladeshis to Kafasifa camp in Syria from where they would be taken to Damascus. The Bangladesh mission in Jordan is negotiating with Qatar Airways to transport them from Damascus to Dhaka.
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