Rome, June 7.—The needs of India and Pakistan in terms of emergency food aid after the civil strife in East Pakistan were "beyond the resources of FAO and the World Food Programme", the Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said today.

Mr Addeke Boerma was addressing the opening session of the FAO council. He departed from his prepared text to recall that he had already authorized the sending of £1,250,000 to India for the refugees from East Pakistan.

He had also authorized the use "anywhere it is necessary" of whatever remained of the £1,660,000 worth of emergency food sent to East Pakistan after the cyclone and floods of last November.

The response of FAO and the World Food Programme — a joint project of FAO and the United Nations — had thus been generous within their means, but he knew it would be insufficient. He was therefore raising the problem at the council meeting particularly for the consideration of donor countries, in the hope that they would take a sympathetic attitude to this "very serious humanitarian problem". —Reuter

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Robert Fisk writes: The Disasters Emergency Committee, representing five British charities, are today launching an India-Pakistan Relief Fund. The appeal was announced soon after the Government said that they would supply the charities with free vaccine, syringes and saline solution to treat the cholera victims who have fled into India from East Pakistan.

The Government also said they would provide aircraft to help move medical supplies quickly to West Bengal. Six RAF aircraft have already been made available to the five charities — the British Red Cross Society, War on Want, Oxfam, the Save the Children Fund, and Christian Aid.

The broad title of the relief fund will enable the charities to give help wherever it is needed and should avoid the problems caused by the more specific title of the East Pakistan cyclone appeal in November which still has £800,000 waiting to be used.

Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, chairman of the Disasters Emergency Committee, said yesterday that the appeal to the public was based on conditions of disease, famine and homelessness. Of the 132 countries in the United Nations only a few had put up anything and so they were emphasizing international responsibility in the appeal.

An aircraft carrying a mobile hospital supplied by War on Want left Brize Norton yesterday carrying with it two doctors and 10 nurses. Other medical staff will fly to India tomorrow with part of £60,000 worth of drugs bought by the relief organization.

The Save the Children Fund is to dispatch to Calcutta tomorrow 500,000 doses of cholera vaccine and five high speed vaccine injectors. Later in the week the Fund hopes to send a medical team.

The British Red Cross Society yesterday sent £10,000 to the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva for the Indian Red Cross. The organization has also bought 66,000 vaccine doses and other anti-cholera drugs. Oxfam is sending 16 1/2 tons of saline in an RAF VC10 which is leaving Britain today. Another 11 tons of sulphur drugs are to be flown out on an RAF Hercules tomorrow.

Christian Aid yesterday sent £20,000 through the World Council of Churches to the Christian Action Social Agency, their sister organization in India.

Kastur, a small charity based in Kent, yesterday dispatched 498,000 disposable syringes and 18 tons of saline solution in a chartered Britannia. Two disc jockeys, Jimmy Saville and Stuart Henry, have offered to help towards the 9,500 cost and Kastur has launched an appeal aimed at raising the entire cost by the time the flight returns on Thursday.
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