BANGKOK, March 25 (TNA) — Thai Red Cross Society hands over humanitarian assistance for the people of Myanmar to Myanmar Red Cross Society as part of effort to scale up assistance for affected population along the Thai-Myanmar border
The handover ceremony of humanitarian assistance between the Thai and Myanmar Red Cross Societies was held on Monday on the Thai side of the 2nd Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot district of Tak Province.
The Thai Red Cross District Branch of Mae Sot handed over 4,000 relief bags, carrying rice, dried food, and other essentials for about 20,000 people to Chairman of Myanmar Red Cross Society, Myawaddy District.
This handover of humanitarian assistance is a bilateral initiative between Thailand and Myanmar to meet the need of the displaced people in Myanmar. As a close neighbor of Myanmar, Thailand is strongly committed to doing everything that is possible to help the people affected by the conflict in Myanmar without discrimination.
This pilot project symbolizes the goodwill from the Thai people to the Myanmar people. Its success was a result of close cooperation between the Thai and Myanmar Red Cross Societies, with the full support of relevant Thai and Myanmar agencies and local communities in Tak Province and the Kayin State, including ethnic groups in the area.
This pilot project is also part of ASEAN’s collective effort in advancing the ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus, which received full support from all ASEAN member states at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR on January 29.-813.-TNA
