Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) said Friday that they have offered general aid to the USA in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) said Friday that they have offered general aid to the USA in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Nations around the globe have extended financial aid and health personnel to the USA and the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that all offers would be accepted.
UD press spokeswoman Anne Lene Dale Sandsten said that the form of Norwegian aid was undetermined pending a formal response from the USA. Dale Sandsten said that financial aid to the USA had not yet been considered.
After the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia in December 2004 experts from Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) were sent to help identify victims, but NCIS information chief Audun Øvrebö said that they don't expect their services to be requested.
"It is not a natural comparison, the USA and Thailand. The USA has incredible resources of this type, in contrast to Thailand. Also there were many Norwegian victims in Asia, and there is nothing to indicate this is the case in New Orleans," Øvrebö said.A Reuters list on Friday afternoon of foreign aid offered to the USA on Friday in response to the Katrina disaster did not include Norway
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