UN delivers aid for first time in a year to Kachin refugees
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Yangon - A United Nations convoy has been granted permission to deliver aid to thousands of Kachin refugees in northern Myanmar for the first time in a year, UN officials said Friday.
A 10-truck convoy left Wednesday for Maija Yang town, on the Myanmar-Chinese border, to deliver food, household kits and medicines to thousands of ethnic Kachin displaced by a government offensive in their territory that has lasted two years.
Maija Yang, the scene of intense fighting in January 2012, is outside government control.
"The cross-line convoy represents a positive step forward by the government to help all people in need across Kachin State," said UN Humanitarian Coordinator Ashok Nigam.//DPA
