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What other countries have offered after Katrina
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Dozens of nations have pledged assistance for victims of Hurricane Katrina. In addition, European governments agreed to release the equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves.

Other forms of aid include:

--AFGHANISTAN: Offered $100,000.

--ALBANIA: $300,000 pledged.

--ARMENIA: $200,000 pledged.

--AUSTRALIA: Donating $8 million to American Red Cross.

--AUSTRIA: Offered tarps and camp beds.

--AZERBAIJAN: tarps, camp beds

--BAHAMAS: Pledged $50,000.

--BANGLADESH: Offered $1 million and said it would send 160 disaster management experts, including doctors, nurses, engineers and others.

--BELGIUM: Offered medical teams, generators, water pumps.

--BRITAIN: Sending 500,000 ration packs.

--CAMBODIA: The king donated $20,000 to match the $20,000 government donation.

--CANADA: $5 million pledged to relief fund; sending planes, three warships and coast guard vessel with supplies, helicopters, search and rescue and security teams.

--CHINA: Offered $5 million to aid survivors, 1,000 tents, 600 generators, bed sheets. Said it would help with medical care and epidemic prevention if needed.

--CUBA: Offered 1,100 doctors.

--CYPRUS: Offered $50,000.

--CZECH REPUBLIC: Ready to send rescue teams, field hospital and pumps and water processing equipment.

--DOMINICA: Offered police to monitor hard-hit areas.

--DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Offered rescue workers, doctors and nurses.

--DJIBOUTI: Offered $50,000.

--EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Pledged $500,000.

--EL SALVADOR: Offered soldiers to monitor disaster areas.

--FINLAND: Sent a 30-member rescue team and three Red Cross logistics experts. Offered 300 tents, a water purification unit, sterile gloves, bed sheets, pillow covers, tarps and first aid kits.

--FRANCE: Flying in tents, blankets, cots, medical kits, generators and other supplies. Offered aircraft, ships and helicopters.

--GABON: Offered $500,000.

--GERMANY: Sending emergency food rations and water pumps. Offered medical supplies, vaccination teams, water purification equipment, medical evacuation aircraft and crisis management experts.

--GREECE: Offered two cruise ships to help house homeless, relief supplies and rescue crews.

--GUYANA: Organizing a telethon to raise money for victims.

--HONDURAS: Offered 135 flooding and sanitation experts.

--HUNGARY: Pledged $5,000 and offered to send in five doctors.

--ICELAND: Offered $500,000.

--INDIA: Donated $5 million to American Red Cross. Sent tarps, blankets and hygiene kits.

--INDONESIA: Offered 45 doctors and 155 other medical staffers and 10,000 blankets.

--IRAQ: $1 million pledged to Red Cross via the Red Crescent.

--IRELAND: $1.2 million pledged.

--ISRAEL: Sending medical team. Offered hundreds of doctors, trauma experts and other medical staff as well as field hospitals and other relief.

--ITALY: Sent military transport plane with blankets, cots and bed supplies for 15,000 people, plus inflatable dinghies, water purifiers and first-aid kits.

--JAPAN: Contributing $200,000 to American Red Cross. Prepared to provide up to $300,000 worth of tents, blankets, generators, portable water tanks and other equipment.

--KENYA: Offered $100 million plus an additional $400 million in petroleum products.

--KOSOVO: $490,000 pledged.

--KUWAIT: Providing $500 million worth of oil and other aid.

--LATVIA: Offered a disaster relief team.

--LUXEMBOURG: Sending five aid experts, two jeeps and 1,000 camp beds and 2,000 blankets.

--MALAYSIA: Pledged $1 million to Red Cross.

--MALDIVES: Sending $25,000 to Red Cross.

--MAURITANIA: Promised $200,000 to Red Cross.

--MEXICO: $1 million. Offered two navy ships, 15 amphibious vehicles, two helicopters, 15 heavy trucks, health brigades and rescue teams. Sent 45 truckloads of supplies and two field kitchens.

--MONGOLIA: $50,000 pledged.

--NATO: Ferrying supplies.

--NETHERLANDS: Sent navy frigate with helicopters, medical supplies, boats and marines. Sent levee inspection team, water pumps.

--NEW ZEALAND: Pledged $1.4 million to Red Cross. Offered search specialists and victim identification team.

--NIGERIA: Pledged $1 million.

--NORWAY: Promised $1.54 million in cash and supplies.

--OMAN: Pledged $15 million.

--ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES: Donated $25,000 to American Red Cross.

--PAKISTAN: $1 million pledged to Red Cross, offered to send doctors and paramedics.

--PALAU: $50,000 pledged.

--PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Promised $10,000 to Red Cross.

--PERU: Offered medical team of 80 to 100 people.

--PHILIPPINES: Philippines Red Cross donating $25,000. Government offered to send 25-man relief team.

--PORTUGAL: Offering tents, mattresses, blankets, hygiene kits. Lending 2 percent of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels of oil.

--QATAR: Offered $100 million.

--ROMANIA: Sending two teams of medical experts.

--RUSSIA: Sending three transport planes with generators, food, tents, blankets, drinking water and medical supplies.

--SAUDI ARABIA: Promised $5 million from Aramco, $250,000 from AGFUND.

--SINGAPORE: Sent three transport helicopters and 38 soldiers.

--SLOVAKIA: Promised blankets, beds, first aid kits.

--SOUTH KOREA: Donating $30 million in government and civilian assistance and sending search team and relief supplies.

--SPAIN: Sent 16 tons of supplies, including food rations, tents and blankets. Also contributing a naval ship to a NATO-led operation.

--SRI LANKA: Pledged $25,000 to American Red Cross.

--SWEDEN: Sending plane stocked with water-treatment equipment, plastic jugs, water-purification experts. Offered aircraft to help distribute supplies.

--SWITZERLAND: Offering 40-50 tons worth of supplies, including large tents, wool blankets, hygiene kits. Offered to send four doctors, two water experts, one environmental expert.

--TAIWAN: Pledged $2 million, supplies.

--THAILAND: Dispatching at least 60 doctors and nurses along with rice.

--TURKEY: Promised $2.5 million in cash and aid.

--UGANDA: $200,000 pledged.

--UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: $100 million pledged.

--VENEZUELA: Offered 1 million barrels of gasoline, $5 million in cash, water purification plants, rescue volunteers and more than 50 tons of canned food and water. Venezuela's Citgo Petroleum Corp. pledged $1 million.

--VIETNAM: Pledged $100,000.

--YEMEN: $100,000 promised to Red Cross.

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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [klehner] [ In reply to ]
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Very generous, all.

I'd probably decline Iraq's, as they have enough to worry about right now.

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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [klehner] [ In reply to ]
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Pretty long list. I guess I missed N Korea and Iran :) I heard that Iran did offer some aid but it was only contingent on us dropping trade sanctions.
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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [klehner] [ In reply to ]
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--KENYA: Offered $100 million plus an additional $400 million in petroleum products.
Wow. Can that be correct?
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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [klehner] [ In reply to ]
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There are a lot of decent people in the world.
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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [klehner] [ In reply to ]
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Very impressive, with a few odd exceptions (not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but it's sort of telling)

For example:
  • you have Qatar at $100 million, UAE at $100 million and Kuwait at $500 million, but our good friends the Saudi Royal Family can only muster $5.25 million (in possibly private or quasi-public funds)?
  • Kosovo can scrape together $490k, but Japan is only offering $200k cash and $300k in goods?


Things that make you go hmmm


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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [dire wolf] [ In reply to ]
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Can someone call Luxembourg and ask if the 2 Jeeps are Wranglers or Cherokees?



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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [MattinSF] [ In reply to ]
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Can someone call Luxembourg and ask if the 2 Jeeps are Wranglers or Cherokees?



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I'm guessing Mercedes G-Wagons. You don't really think they drive American cars in Luxembourg, do you?


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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [klehner] [ In reply to ]
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"--NIGERIA: Pledged $1 million. "

Actually they will wire $10 million and ask for a $9 million check back.
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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [Trirunner] [ In reply to ]
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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [peter826] [ In reply to ]
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LOL. Good one!

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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [Casey] [ In reply to ]
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A country like Kenya can offer $100 million!!! while Hungary can only give $5,000??? Any gift is appreciated, but this is an odd one.
I think the Kenya one must be a typo. I can't imagine them offering $100 million, plus $400 million in petroluem products (according to the CIA factbook they import 100% of their petroleum and have no petroleum industry).
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Re: What other countries have offered after Katrina [peter826] [ In reply to ]
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http://www.forbes.com/...9/13/afx2221650.html

NAIROBI (AFX) - Less than a week after donating thousands of dollars to US victims of Hurricane Katrina, Kenya's government has appealed for more than 25 mln usd in aid to feed more than a 1 mln people in need of emergency relief.

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