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| | UNDP Azerbaijan |
 | | In response to the Deputy Prime Minister's letter outlining the post-flood situation and the preliminary damage assessment, on Friday, 9 May 2003, the UN Resident Coordinator, Mr. |
 | | Marco Borsotti, visited Salyan and Ali-Bayramly - two of the flood-affected areas, where he met with the respective heads of the local authorities (Executive Committees - ExCom) to be briefed on national response to the flood, and the urgent needs to be addressed. |
 | | Yousif Alekperov, informed that hundreds of houses in the Salyan district (173 km south-east from Baku; population -114,900, as of January 2002), located in the vicinity to the Kura river were damaged, including nearly 1,600 affected houses in the town that were flooded, mostly, by the sub-soil waters. |
| www.un-az.org /undp/news/salyan.php (492 words) |
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