Rohingya News Agency‏ ‏‎–(Xinhua):‎ The European Commission will provide further humanitarian funding of 3 million Euro (4.07 million US ‎dollars) to assist victims of violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine State and northernmost Kachin State, ‎according to the press release issued by EU's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) ‎on Saturday.‎

The fresh funds of 4.07 million dollars will be used to provide food to those affected victims.‎

To date, Saturday's announcement brings the total commission humanitarian funding for helping the ‎people of Myanmar inside and outside the country in 2012-13 to 48.6 million Euro (65.9 million dollars), ‎said Claus Sorensen, Director General of ECHO at a press conference here on the same day.‎

Sorensen stated, "I am impressed about the political developments and the reform process underway. ‎When consolidated this would make Myanmar a magnet for investment and ready to take off ‎economically."‎

Sorensen visited displaced communities in some affected areas of Rakhine State from November 19-21.‎

According to the UN, more than 140,000 people have now been displaced since June 2012 in Rakhine ‎State, mostly the Muslim minorities, while some 115,000 displaced live in numerous camps in Kachin ‎State, the release said.‎

Since the beginning of the violence, ECHO has continuously deployed experts to both Rakhine and ‎Kachin States to assess the humanitarian situation in the camps and communities, it added.‎