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.