Saudi Arabia Delivers Humanitarian Aid to Sri Lanka

Relief Assistance Arrives in Colombo

WASHINGTON, July 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has
delivered more than 100,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka in the past
week. The Sri Lankan government received the second shipment of emergency
assistance, including foodstuffs, medicines, rugs, blankets and tents, in
Colombo today. The first shipment of supplies was delivered on July 8.

The emergency provisions delivered this week were contributed by Saudi Arabia
to aid to the humanitarian crisis caused by the displacement of hundreds of
thousands of Sri Lankans.

In the first six months of 2009, Saudi Arabia has donated more than $6 million
in foreign aid to the region and continues to provide relief aide for victims
of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, including:

-- $3 million to the Islamic Development Bank delivered on June 21 by the
Saudi Charitable Campaign for the Relief of the Victims of the Earthquake and
Tsunami in East Asia.
-- $3.1 million to the International Organization of Migration (IOM) from the
Saudi Charitable Campaign for the Relief of the Victims of the Tsunami in East
Asia.

Through the World Bank's current International Development Association
Fourteenth Replenishment (IDA 14), Saudi Arabia has contributed total
cumulative resources to IDA of over two billion dollars. Since 1978, Saudi
Arabia has donated an average of 4 percent of the Kingdom's GDP in annual
foreign aid; the official United Nations' goal is 0.7 percent annually.

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Embassy of Saudi Arabia. Additional information is available at the
Department of Justice, Washington, DC.

SOURCE Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Information Office

Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Information Office, press@saudiembassy.net