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AUSTRALIA TO PROVIDE $3.2 MLN TO HELP ROHINGYANS
Jakarta, April 16 (ANTARA) - Australia will provide $3.2 million in humanitarian aid for Rohingya people living in Burma's northern Rakhine State to improve their living conditions and give them better economic opportunities, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has said.
"Australia is concerned about the deteriorating living conditions and increasing marginalisation of the Rohingya people in Burma and in refugee camps in Bangladesh," Smith said at Nusa Dua, Bali, on Wednesday, according to a report posted on the website of the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
The Australian government's humanitarian aid package would include $1 million for food aid delivered through the World Food Programme, $1.2 million including for the delivery of basic health services through the United Nations Development Programme, and $1 million to improve rural livelihoods through CARE Australia.
The minister said his country had supported the Rohingya people in Bangladesh and Burma for more than a decade.
"This package builds on the $4 million in assistance Australia has already provided through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and takes Australia's total contribution to assist the Rohingya people to more than $8 million this financial year," he said.
"Australia's direct support for the immediate needs of vulnerable people in our region is complemented by our support for regional dialogue and cooperation, including through the Bali Process, the third Ministerial meeting of which I am attending today with Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Mr Bob Debus, Minister for Home Affairs," Minister Smith said.
Minister Stephen Smith and his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda were at Nusa Dua as host of the 3rd Bali Regional Ministerial Conference or known as the Bali Process Forum, to discuss smuggling of people, international human trafficking and related transnational crimes.
"Australia is concerned about the deteriorating living conditions and increasing marginalisation of the Rohingya people in Burma and in refugee camps in Bangladesh," Smith said at Nusa Dua, Bali, on Wednesday, according to a report posted on the website of the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
The Australian government's humanitarian aid package would include $1 million for food aid delivered through the World Food Programme, $1.2 million including for the delivery of basic health services through the United Nations Development Programme, and $1 million to improve rural livelihoods through CARE Australia.
The minister said his country had supported the Rohingya people in Bangladesh and Burma for more than a decade.
"This package builds on the $4 million in assistance Australia has already provided through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and takes Australia's total contribution to assist the Rohingya people to more than $8 million this financial year," he said.
"Australia's direct support for the immediate needs of vulnerable people in our region is complemented by our support for regional dialogue and cooperation, including through the Bali Process, the third Ministerial meeting of which I am attending today with Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Mr Bob Debus, Minister for Home Affairs," Minister Smith said.
Minister Stephen Smith and his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda were at Nusa Dua as host of the 3rd Bali Regional Ministerial Conference or known as the Bali Process Forum, to discuss smuggling of people, international human trafficking and related transnational crimes.
