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August 21st, 2008
Posted: 05:29 PM ET
From CNN’s Charley Keyes: (CNN) — The United States is sending plane-loads of humanitarian assistance to Georgia even as aid experts try to determine the full extent of the crisis. The United States is still unable to gain access to the breakaway region of South Ossetia, where fighting broke out August 7 between Georgian and Russian troops. “We are not allowed into South Ossetia,” U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Henrietta Fore told reporters in a conference call from the Georgian capitol of Tbilisi. She said access to the Georgian city of Gori, near South Ossetia, “is still challenging.” The scope of the humanitarian crisis was unclear, since American and other disaster experts have been denied entry to regions controlled by Russian troops. “We are calling for full access to all humanitarian teams. That is very important. Humanitarian work — to be able to save lives, to be able to keep families together — needs access,” Fore said. “We have aid going though implementing partners, so though other agencies, but at this time we are not sending any of our American teams into South Ossetia.” |
 
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