More Emirates aid planned for Iraq

The United Arab Emirates' Red Crescent Association has said that a new cargo of humanitarian aid will be sent to Iraq.

Naser El-Sweedi, the chairman of the association's board of directors said that this aid will be sent according to the instructions of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the Emirate's state minister of the association.

He added that the new cargo of medicines comes within the efforts exerted by the association to ease the circumstances of the Iraqi people, especially children, women and aged people due to the international economic sanctions and the subsequent lack of food and medicine.

The assembly implemented a program to support the Iraqi people that established under the auspices of Fatima Bint Mubarak, wife of U.A.E. President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan during the last two months in which she collected donations of $2.2 million.