UN, Iranian officials discuss concrete rescue measures to flood victims
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An aerial view of flooding in Iran\'s Golestan province
Members of the United Nations office in Tehran have met with senior Iranian government officials, coordinating further rescue measures to the flood-hit victims in Iran.
Iran Press/Iran news: In her Friday tweet, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Iran, Ugochi Daniels, noted that during the meeting, the two sides discussed the concrete humanitarian actions so far taken by the UN and its affiliated bodies regarding flood victims in Iran.
The sides also conferred on plans to step up rescue and relief operations and explored ways of facilitating the delivery of UN aid for flood victims in Iran, Iran Press reported.
Members of #UN #Iran team met with senior officials of the Government coordinating the response to #floods. We discussed concrete #UN actions so far and what is planned - the technical and logistical details of delivery of our aid for people affected by #floods. #IranFloods pic.twitter.com/W6fCJo7vPZ
— Ugochi Daniels (@daniels_ugochi) April 5, 2019
Unprecedented heavy rains in the past two weeks have caused devastating floods in various parts of Iran.
At least 62 people have died and hundreds more injured in historic floods that affected large parts of Iran over the past days. 101/211
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