OREANDA-NEWS. May 26, 2008. On the instructions of the President of Turkmenistan, humanitarian aid was sent to the people of friendly China, who had suffered from the destructive earthquake.

The plane with children’s cloth and beddings for the people in the Sichuan province on board landed at the airport in the district centre in the northwest of the People’s Republic of China. The local authorities greeted the envoys of Turkmenistan at the airport and expressed cordial gratitude to the Government of Turkmenistan and personally Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov for the support and assistance. The Chinese officials assured that the humanitarian aid would be promptly delivered to the people in the region of the natural disaster.

The journalists of the Chinese mass media including the Xinghua news agency attended the ceremony of handing over the humanitarian cargo. The Chinese mass media broadcast the information on the arrival of the Turkmen plane with humanitarian aid.