Time to find out who your friends are.

The full article can be found at...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/04/katrina.world.aid/index.html

Looks like our best friend is Qatar.

Japan offers a paltry $200,000. For the second largest economy in the world,
that's sad.

All Canada offers is words.

Russia has offered essentially nothing but it did give itself an excuse.

Africa

a.. Nigeria has pledged $1 million to hurricane disaster relief, government
officials told CNN. "Nigeria will be happy to pledge $1 million to the
hurricane disaster fund in the spirit of brotherhood," Finance Minister
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said.

Asia

a.. China offered $5 million in aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina. If
needed, the Chinese government also is prepared to send rescue workers,
including medical experts, officials said.


a.. Japan has offered to provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross, the
Japanese Foreign Ministry said. Japan also will provide up to $300,000 in
emergency supplies such as tents, blankets and power generators if it
receives requests, the ministry said.


a.. India is making a $5 million donation to the American Red Cross, Ronen
Sen, Indian ambassador to the United States, said Saturday. In addition, Sen
said India was willing to donate essential medicines to the relief effort.


a.. The Singapore armed forces, responding to requests by the Texas Army
National Guard, has sent three Chinook helicopters to Fort Polk, Louisiana,
to help in relief efforts.


a.. South Korea awaits a U.S. response after pledging aid, a government
official said.


a.. Afghanistan pledged $100,000 to help provide aid to the hurricane
victims, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.


a.. Sri Lanka will donate $25,000 to the American Red Cross.


a.. Taiwan has pledged more than $3 million to the relief effort.

Americas

a.. Canada has offered to help in any way it can, and its navy is preparing
a ship full of emergency disaster relief supplies to be sent when a request
comes.


a.. Cuban President Fidel Castro offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston,
Texas, with 26 tons of medicine to treat disaster victims.


a.. Mexico has offered $1 million and is sending 15 truckloads of water,
food and medical supplies via Texas. The Mexican navy has offered to send
two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles.


a.. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the United States,
offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the
disaster area.

Australia

a.. Australia is giving $10 million, most of it to the American Red Cross,
according to the Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

Europe

a.. France has offered mobile help from rescue teams in the French Antilles
in the Caribbean, including a civil defense detachment of 35 people, tents,
camp beds, generators, motor pumps, water treatment units and emergency
kits, two CASA cargo aircraft, a ship (Batral Francis Garnier) and the
frigate Ventose with its Panther helicopter, and a hurricane disaster unit.
France also has offered assistance from the French mainland, including
several aircraft. In addition, the NGO Telecoms Sans Frontieres, which
specializes in restoring phone lines and Internet service in disasters, is
ready to send a team of experts and equipment. Veolia Environment, which has
facilities in Louisiana, has offered to make its local water management
resources available.


a.. Germany has offered a range of assistance, including medical and
transportation services, water treatment capabilities and aid in searching
for victims and supplies. Germany also has said it is ready and willing to
"dip into its own emergency oil reserves" to release some 2 million barrels
a day for 30 days.


a.. Italy has offered to send aid and evacuation specialists immediately,
Italy's civil protection unit said. Authorities have prepared two military
transport planes to fly amphibious vessels, pumps, generators, tents and
personnel to New Orleans, Louisiana, and other areas. They were awaiting
word from U.S. officials, the unit said.


a.. The Netherlands will provide teams for inspecting dikes and for
identifying victims if there is a formal request from the United States. It
also will send a frigate from Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles to New
Orleans shortly to provide emergency assistance, the Dutch government said.


a.. Russia has offered to help with rescue efforts but is awaiting a reply
from Washington.


a.. Spain expects to receive a formal request to release gasoline stocks to
the United States and is prepared to grant it, an Industry Ministry
spokesman said.


a.. Sweden's Rescue Authority said it was on standby to supply water
purifying equipment, health care supplies and emergency shelters if needed.


a.. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said his country stands ready to
help the United States in whatever way it can.

Middle East

a.. Qatar has offered the United States $100 million to assist in the
humanitarian crisis triggered by Hurricane Katrina.


a.. Saudi Refining, a Houston-based subsidiary of state oil firm Saudi
Aramco, will donate $5 million to the American Red Cross to support relief
efforts for hurricane victims.


a.. Iran has offered to send humanitarian aid to hurricane victims, Reuters
reported. "We are prepared to send our contributions to the people through
the Red Crescent," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told Reuters.


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