The UN World Food Programme (WFP) will send 50 thousand tons of wheat flour to Lebanon as part of measures to combat the food deficit in the Republic, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced on Tuesday.
"Because of the damage done to the grain silos in the port [of Beirut in the explosion], the WFP will deliver 50 thousand tons of wheat flour in the Lebanese capital to the country has not experienced food shortages", - stated in the management report.
On Monday, the UN WFP Executive Director David Beazley said that Lebanon could run out of bread if the port's operation could not be restored within two weeks. He added that earlier a ship with 17.5 thousand tons of wheat was sent to the Republic, "which can arrive in Beirut in two weeks, which will be able to provide Lebanon with bread for twenty days." In addition, three UN WFP cargo planes with food have already arrived at the airport of the Lebanese capital.
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Based on materials from TASS