This issue was raised. Here’s a summary, without comment.
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.
I heard that Iran did offer some aid but it was only contingent on us dropping trade sanctions.