China to provide additional 13.8-mln-dollar aid to Pakistan, FM spokesman

China will again provide with cash and materials worthing 13.8 million US dollars to Pakistan as quake relief aid, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said in Beijing Thursday.

China has decided to send a medical team to the quake-hit area in Pakistan and considered to build up an earthquake monitoring network for the country, Kong said.

According to Kong, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Moscow when they attended a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Wen again expressed sympathy to Aziz with the heavy human casualties caused by the strong earthquake.

Previously, China has already offered 6.2-million-dollar-worth aid to Pakistan.

The death toll of the earthquake in South Asia has reported to reach more than 54,000.

Source: Xinhua