Malaysia allows use of airports for aid flights
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has allowed its air space and two airports to be used for tsunami relief operations in Indonesia's Banda Aceh.
Wisma Putra said in a statement that the United Nations World Food Programme would use the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang as a base to forward relief supplies to Aceh.
The organisation had already been informed, it said.
It said the United States had also been permitted to use Malaysian air space and the Langkawi International Airport to send humanitarian aid to Aceh.
Aceh was the area worst affected by the tsunami on Dec 26.
Earlier, Wisma Putra said that Malaysia had sent CN235 aircraft and Nuri helicopters to Medan at Indonesia’s request.
“Forty Royal Malaysian Air Force officers and personnel have been deployed to help Indonesia in the transport of supplies and ailing people between Medan and Aceh,” it said.
Malaysia had sent emergency aid to Aceh on Dec 28 and 29.
Wisma Putra said up to last Friday, Malaysia had received up to RM4.6mil from South Korea and China as well as Japanese companies and organisations.
South Korea contributed US$50,000 (RM190,000), China RM80,000, a Japanese business federation two million yen (RM732,000) and AEON Co Ltd (owners of Jaya Jusco) 10 million yen (RM3.66mil).
The Brunei Government has pledged to contribute BN$100,000 (RM232,800) while Tunisia planned to send two C130 aircraft to ferry humanitarian aid to Penang.
A special flight carrying humanitarian aid was scheduled to arrive in Subang this evening from Morocco.
“Up to Dec 31, seven countries and organisations have provided or pledged contributions for the victims in Malaysia,” the statement said. – Bernama
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