Before Tsunami, World Aid Helped Armenia

In a story by AP on Yahoo!, Steve Gutterman looks back at the 1988 earthquake.

Less than two weeks after the quake, Soviet authorities said they had received $100 million in aid from 77 countries. An Armenian official in the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party at the time of the quake said on condition of anonymity that earthquake-related aid through 1992 totaled $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion. About 40 percent came from abroad.

I wonder if all that money, and it is a sizeable amount, really went to help the people of Gyumri and immediate area.

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Posted by Matt on January 20, 2005 | TrackBack | Email to a friend