Hurricane Irma: Foreign Secretary's statement on Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands
Thursday, 7 September 2017 13:39
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: The UK government is
responding to the catastrophic damage that has been caused by
Hurricane Irma to the Caribbean and in particular obviously to the
overseas territories, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands. Our
thoughts go out to the people who have been affected, to those
families who have lost loved ones, and as you can expect we are
doing everything we can with humanitarian relief and
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Foreign Secretary said:
The UK government is responding to the catastrophic damage that
has been caused by Hurricane Irma to the Caribbean and in
particular obviously to the overseas territories, Anguilla, and
the British Virgin Islands.
Our thoughts go out to the people who have been affected, to
those families who have lost loved ones, and as you can expect
we are doing everything we can with humanitarian relief and
assistance.
We have the fleet auxiliary boat RFS Mounts Bay is in the
vicinity, we have people on the ground.
But what we will be doing now is making an urgent assessment of
the further needs of communities in the British Virgin Islands
and Anguilla to see what more can be done in terms of financial
and humanitarian assistance.
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