International communicty to coordinate tsunami relief efforts

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland speaks in a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Dec. 31, 2004. He said that the world community has pledged 1.2 billion US dollars worth of aid for the tsunami-stricken Asian countries.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (R) shakes hands with United States Secretary of State Colin Powell during a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, Dec. 31, 2004. Annan and Powell discussed how to coordinate international aid to the tsunami-ravaged Asian countries