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UN Resumes Food Aid to Iraq
After a suspension of about a month, the UN World Food Program (WFP) resumed its food aid to Iraq through Turkey.

The food aid resumed on April 4, after Turkey opened its border to humanitarian aid convoys, said Heather Hill, public affair official of the UN organization.

The first package of WFP humanitarian aid, totaling 66,000 tons of wheat flour, is being transported to Iraq through the Turkish border town of Silopi, she said.

She added that the flour, purchased in southern Turkey's Gaziantep City, is a US$500,000 donation from Canada.

The food aid is "just a beginning," Hill said.

The convoys are to be escorted by Kurdish authorities or UN staff in northern Iraq, she told the press.

(Xinhua News Agency April 10, 2003)

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