BEIJING, Jan. 10 -- The United Nations World Food Programme is prepared to feed up to 400,000 Indonesian tsunami survivors within a week. WFP executive director James Morris made this assurance after visiting the devastated city of Banda Aceh with the UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.

¡¡¡¡Before the tsunami struck Indonesia, Banda Aceh's tiny airstrip handled about three flights each day.

    Now it is a bustling hub for relief operations, coping with dozens of flights carrying crucial aid shipments on a daily basis.

    Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono inspected the shipments on Saturday, thanking the workers and volunteers who have mounted around-the-clock relief operations since the tidal waves struck a fortnight ago.

    Now the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian aid agency, projects it will be able to feed as many as four hundred thousand within a week.

    Executive Director of World Food Programme James Morris said, "Today we are feeding something more than 150,000 people in Indonesia. That number will in the matter of two, three, four days will go to 300,000, a matter of five, six, seven days will go to 400,000 and depending on the extent of the damage on down the western coast, the numbers here could go to as high as one million. I am hopeful that will not be the case."

    The Royal Malaysian Air Force is flying the World Food supplies in from its hub at Malaysia's Subang military airport.

    James Morris said the organization plans to provide food for the tsunami victims for six months, to support their reconstruction efforts.

(Source: CCTV.com)