24 April 2004 23:03
Russian plane to deliver aid to N. Korea Monday or Tuesday
MOSCOW. April 28 (Interfax) - A Russian Emergency Situations Ministry plane will airlift humanitarian aid to North
Korea at the beginning of next week, the Ministry says.
"In the second phase, the exact dates of which have yet to
be clarified," Russia plans to supply North Korea with
"The departure of an Emergency Situations Ministry Il-76 cargo plane is scheduled for Monday or Tuesday. It will
deliver medicine, tents, bedding and clothing to Pyongyang," Deputy Emergency Situations Minister Yury Brazhnikov
told Interfax on Saturday.
construction materials, which will be delivered by rail from Khabarovsk, he said.
"This is being worked on between the Russian Foreign Ministry and North Korea," Brazhnikov said. [RU KP
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