欧盟保证向海地提供5亿7千5百万美元地震救援 Europe Pledges 575 Million in Haiti Quake Relief

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18 January, 2010

欧盟向海地提供5亿7千5百多万美元,帮助这个加勒比海国家在上星期的地震后重建。

欧盟外交政策负责人阿什顿星期一在布鲁塞尔举行紧急会议后宣布了这项援助计划。她还表示,未来将按照法国的提议举行一次海地援助会议,但她说,时间和地点尚未决定。

对海地的援助源源不绝,欧盟的捐款是最新的进展。这是自2004年亚洲海啸以来全球最大救援努力的一部分。

海地官员说,1月12日的地震造成多达20万人死亡,导致成千上万人挨饿,流离失所。

由于运送食品和饮用水的工作进展缓慢,生活在废墟瓦砾之中的幸存者越来越沮丧。

The European Union has offered Haiti more than $575 million to help the Caribbean nation recover from last week's earthquake.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced the aid package after an emergency meeting in Brussels on Monday. She also said a French-proposed international conference on aid for Haiti will take place in the future, but noted that time or place has yet been set.

Europe's contribution is the latest in a flood of donations to Haiti, part of the biggest global relief effort since the 2004 Asian tsunami.

Officials in Haiti say the January 12 earthquake killed up to 200,000 people, and left hundreds of thousands more hungry and homeless.

Survivors living in the midst of piles of rubble are growing frustrated with the slow pace of food and water deliveries.