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UN gives $10 million to Chile

Tags: Chile earthquake , UN, World, Society, News
 
Mar 6, 2010 08:08 Moscow Time
A man looks at the the debris of his damaged house in the locality of Lota, Chile, on 02 March 2010, which was destroyed by the 8.8 Richter scale earthquake which affected the south and center of the country the previous weekend. Photo: EPA
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The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived to Chile on Friday to assess damage from a devastating earthquake measuring 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale six days ago, and pledged 10 million dollars in relief from a United Nation's emergency fund. Earlier, The EU, Australia, Japan and China have expressed their readiness to assign 11million dollars for the quake-hit country.

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