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	answer has question	9iCU0RGP
	answer has answering person	Clare Short
	answer text	Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance her Department is giving to people of Halabjain the current year. [122130]Clare Short: We are supporting the work of Professor Christine Gosden of Liverpool University to develop a prioritised programme, inconjunction with the universities in northern Iraq and the recently established post-graduate school at Halabja. This will benefitthe victims of chemical and biological weapon attacks on the Kurds, principally at Halabja in northern Iraq. The programme willinclude developing proposals for palliative care, curative treatment, and neutralising environmental contamination. We shallconsider providing more substantive assistance on the basis of these proposals. Other donors such as Switzerland, Sweden, Finland,Norway, Italy and the Vatican have shown an interest in providing humanitarian and other support.
	answer given date	2000-05-17
	answer has answering body	Department for International Development
	written answer has answering body	Department for International Development
Department for International Development	answering body has written answer	wmUoZTZW
Department for International Development	answering body has answer	wmUoZTZW
9iCU0RGP	question has answer	wmUoZTZW
Clare Short	answering person has answer	wmUoZTZW