An emergency humanitarian shipment intended in particular to care for refugees and victims of the explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh on the evening of 25 September will be sent to Armenia. The Tulipe association is contributing with a large donation of health products.
The Crisis and Support Centre of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs is sending a humanitarian cargo shipment to Armenia, including a donation from the Tulipe association and its member healthcare companies. The donation consists of 40 kits of general and emergency medicines for adults and children, 1,500 sets of sutures and 9,000 sterile compresses. In addition to this donation, the cargo also includes a batch of medical equipment and emergency medicines for the treatment of 250 seriously injured people.
Loading of Tulipe health product kits during a previous humanitarian shipment
“Distributed in the field as close as possible to needs
According to the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, “this aid will be handed over by the French Embassy in Yerevan to the Armenian Ministry of Health for distribution on the ground as close as possible to needs”. A team from the Crisis and Support Centre will also visit the country “to assess needs and implement a humanitarian response for the most vulnerable”. In a press release issued on the evening of 27 September, the Ministry stated that “France is resolutely committed to standing by Armenia and the Armenian people, and to supporting the refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, tens of thousands of whom have been forced to flee their homeland and their homes following the military offensive launched by Azerbaijan and nine months of illegal blockade”.
Nagorno-Karabakh: aid for NGOs
Lastly, on the decision of Catherine Colonna, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France will provide additional financial aid of €7 million to NGOs, United Nations agencies and the Red Cross movement in Armenia for the reception and social, medical and financial care of these people. This financial aid is in addition to the 5.5 million euros already allocated by France since the beginning of 2023, via the International Committee of the Red Cross, bringing to 12.5 million euros the support provided to refugees and displaced persons in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh since the beginning of the year. The emergency freight currently being sent to Armenia completes this support.
Last March, the Tulipe association supported thework of the NGO EliseCare with a donation of one tonne of health products.
We’ll have more to say about this operation when the freight arrives in the next few days.
