Egypt - UN evacuating families and non-essential workers

[sharon sanders]

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2/3/2011 3:54:00 PM

القاهرة - أ ش أ

Cairo - ASHA


An official source at the United Nations, Thursday, that an international organization has sent several aircraft to evacuate all the families of essential personnel and non-essential workers in the United Nations for Egypt.

The source added, that began last Wednesday, and evacuations, which will continue today as well, to be resumed on Saturday.


It is noteworthy that Britain had decided to rent by civil aircraft for the evacuation of their nationals in Egypt, against the backdrop of angry protests taking place in all provinces of the Republic.

http://www.masrawy.com/News/Egypt/Politics/2011/february/3/united_nations.aspx

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Re: Egypt - UN evacuating families and non-essential workers

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011

UN to evacuate staff from Egypt

By TAREK EL-TABLAWY and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press <BLOCK>CAIRO (AP) - The United Nations began to evacuate much of its staff in Egypt on Thursday, while more than 4,000 passengers made their escape through Cairo airport a day after the protests gripping the Egyptian capital degenerated into a bloody street brawl.

The U.N. was sending in two chartered aircraft to take 350 staff and their families to Cyprus, said Rolando Gomez, a spokesman for its peacekeeping mission on the Mediterranean island. Each aircraft was to make two roundtrips to Cyprus.
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"The staff will be temporarily relocated due to the security situation in Egypt," Gomez told The Associated Press, adding that arrangements had been made to accommodate up to 600 staff and their families at hotels in Cyprus. It was unclear whether they would remain on the island or head to other destinations.

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