U.N. Aid Workers’ Use of Bridge Hits a Snag
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From Times Wire Reports
Eager to reopen aid offices shuttered for months because of war, international aid workers headed back into northern Afghanistan across the long-closed Friendship Bridge in Termez, Uzbekistan.
But a shipment of wheat that was supposed to accompany them never made it to its destination, according to a U.N. official. It was not clear whether it was stopped on the Uzbek or Afghan side.
The glitch fueled doubts the Soviet-era bridge will quickly become the gateway for delivering aid to desperate Afghans.
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