Vegetable Oil for Afghan & Iraqi Refugees in Iran Arrives at Bandar Abbas

August 9, 2000 - 0:0
TEHRAN A consignment of 492 metric tons of vegetable oil, donated by the government of Switzerland through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), has arrived at the port of Bandar Abbas, according to the United Nations Information Center.
The oil will be distributed by the Bureau of the Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs of the Ministry of Interior to approximately 73,000 Afghan and Iraq vulnerable refugees settled in camps in the country and also to 5,000 primary school girls in 29 camps in the western and southeast of the country.