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BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Three weeks after a magnitude 8
earthquake rocked China's southwest Sichuan province, aid and
messages expressing sympathy are still flowing into the country from
all over the world.
Angolan Foreign Minister Joao Miranda, New Zealand Foreign Minister
Winston Peters, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and
Paula Gopee-Scoon, foreign minister of the Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago, have sent their sympathies to China in recent days over the
disaster.
Meanwhile, the Fiji government donated 25,000 Fiji dollars (about
16,600 U.S. dollars) to China.
The Uruguayan government donated a set of water-purification
equipment worth some 100,000 U.S. dollars.
The Polish government has pledged 160 military tents.
The Greek government offered China 5 tons of emergency supplies
including 100 tents, medicines and medical equipment.
The Defense Ministry of Germany provided China with 3 million euros'
worth of aid materials including 80 military tents.
According to Chinese official figures, the death toll from the May
12 earthquake rose to 69,122 as of Wednesday noon, and a total of
373,606 were injured and 17,991 others remain missing.
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